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Gary English

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
67 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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"Adults should be allowed to choose for themselves"

No, because if you look at prohibition, which happened in America, right, back in the 19, I think it was 1928, 29, or something like that.

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"Adults should be allowed to choose for themselves"

What happened?

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"Adults should be allowed to choose for themselves"

made millionaires out of the gangsters because they could charge what they wanted for the product, right?

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"Adults should be allowed to choose for themselves"

Okay?

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"Adults should be allowed to choose for themselves"

That's what's going to happen.

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"Adults should be allowed to choose for themselves"

No, but they had to lift prohibition because no matter how much police and activity they put in, they were buying off the police.

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"Adults should be allowed to choose for themselves"

And that's what will happen with cigarettes.

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"Adults should be allowed to choose for themselves"

Unless you abolish the thing and you don't have the product in the country.

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"Adults should be allowed to choose for themselves"

That's the only way to do it, right?

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"Adults should be allowed to choose for themselves"

If you say, say, for example, I'm 19, 18 when that prohibition comes in, but I've seen people around me smoking all my life.

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"Adults should be allowed to choose for themselves"

I'm going to go looking for them.

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"Adults should be allowed to choose for themselves"

Where am I going to go looking for them?

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"Adults should be allowed to choose for themselves"

On the black market.

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"Adults should be allowed to choose for themselves"

What's going to happen there?

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"Adults should be allowed to choose for themselves"

I'm going to pay a fortune for the product, right?

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"Adults should be allowed to choose for themselves"

I'm going to have to smoke in secret like they did through the prohibition years.

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"Adults should be allowed to choose for themselves"

They were drinking through the entire prohibition years, right?

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"Adults should be allowed to choose for themselves"

But the only people who are going to have any advantage out of this are the sellers who are going to sell you that product.

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"Adults should be allowed to choose for themselves"

Yeah, but even when you're taking the prohibition basis of it, right?

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"Adults should be allowed to choose for themselves"

You're still going to be selling cigarettes for the next 80 years.