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That's why I started this entire exchange with

> This depends on your definition of the term "works".

I think for a lot of governments and policy makers the goal is to significantly reduce.

By your definition, literally every human intervention in history, prohibitory or otherwise has not "worked".



>By your definition, literally every human intervention in history, prohibitory or otherwise has not "worked".

Correct.


Even in scenarios where the specifically stated goal of a policy is a specific decline in some measure?




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