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The stunning breadth of anti-smoking statutes is testament to the reality of smokings third-party harms

Australia now has smoking bans in workplaces, pubs, clubs, restaurants, educational institutions, entertainment venues, sports stadiums, patrolled beaches, playgrounds, cars carrying children, and on public transport

Studies show that menthol cigarettes increase initiation of smoking, decrease cessation, and make it harder for Black smokers to quit compared to non-Black smokers

Perhaps they were remembering the fire at Kings Cross underground station in 1987

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