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I'm very pro-legalization but honestly tobacco is a shit drug. No real high, very addictive and awful health effects. I don't see many people going through the hassle of maintaining their addiction illegally if it was banned everywhere.
Tobacco addicts are on another level. I've met people who kicked cocaine but couldn't quit cigs.
Shit, where I live cigarettes are expensive and there is already a gray market for untaxed tobacco.
You could say its harder to quit cigs because it's more publicly available though.
I think the reason tobacco is so hard to kick is just because there's no immediate deleterious effects. Why quit this week when you could quit next week or next month?
I know, I am one :( But I also know that if I had to go to a dealer to buy cigarettes, I couldn't smoke in public and it was as socially frowned upon as hard drugs I'd have a much easier time quitting.