If you push the laws too far people will break them, not follow them, says Jacob Rees-Mogg

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If you push the laws too far people will break them, not follow them, says Jacob Rees-Mogg.

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Do you remember the film Some Like It Hot, when in the high day of Al Capone, gangsters were running illegal alcohol bars dressed up as funeral parlours so that people could go in and have a cup of "coffee"?Now, why do I talk about this?

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Because anyone with any sense who knows anything about anything recognises that if you try and make something that was legal, less legal, you find that crime moves in.

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And this is exactly what's been happening with cigarettes and indeed with gambling.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say So the consumption, the purchase of cigarettes illegally has gone up from about 12 per cent of the market to 23 per cent of the market in the three years from 2023 to now.And this is partly because prices have gone up so much.

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