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Mary Bassett Director of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights

Tobacco sales will shift underground, ciggies bootlegged at exorbitant rates will further cash-strap smokers, organised crime will step into the breach to bolster supply, the rebellious at heart will take up smoking to protest tar totalitarianism, and so on

It remains true of the continued legal prohibition on narcotics. But Berrick points to two historical precedents for generational phase-out, in regulations that successfully curbed opium smoking in Taiwan, then known as Formosa, in 1900 and Sri Lanka a British colony at the time in 1911

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