• tal@lemmy.today
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    8 months ago

    Realistically, I assume that anyone who wants tobacco and would be affected is just going to buy it outside city limits.

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      8 months ago

      Yep. My hometown restricted beer and wine sales and that is exactly what we did. It was a 15min drive instead of what could have been a 5min drive.

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        8 months ago

        We had a religious township do that, now the highway to the nearest wet town has the highest rate of drunkdriving deaths in the province.

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          I lived in a dry county growing up. If someone was headed “across the bridge” it meant they were heading to the border of the next county where they had a bar and 4 liquor stores within a half mile stretch.

          It’s weird that I grew up in a county that didn’t sell alcohol but there were more liquor stores within 10 miles than there were grocery stores.

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            8 months ago

            Username checks out. Dry/wet town/county lines are a very common experience there

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              8 months ago

              When you’re as drunk and Texan as I am you know where to go to get liquor.

              It’s getting less prevalent. Last I heard my hometown is now wet and the closest town down the street serves beer at the only restaurant there. In the last 20 years things have started loosening up a little.

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      8 months ago

      People will drive to county limits, but policies like this have been shown to actually be quite effective. Even if you are willing to drive to a neighboring county, will you do it as often?

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        8 months ago

        policies like this have been shown to actually be quite effective

        United States, 1920s, alcohol.

        Very much the opposite

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          8 months ago

          That’s a very different scenario and it required committing crimes to drink. County-level policies like cigarette bans and sugar taxes have legal ways for you to bypass them, but still discourage use.