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		pixl97 34 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK a... Nicotine is insanely addictive, so ya. Alcohol is very difficult to ban as you can take almost any kind of sugar feedstock and turn it into alcohol.

tialaramex 34 days ago [–]

Right. Booze is straight up naturally occurring, albeit rare. That's why you get drunk monkeys and other wildlife. The animal is like "Actually this moldy fruit is pretty good" - they did absolutely nothing to manufacture booze but here it is.

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