Your initial comment may not have been well stated.
It asserts that underage bans are usually applied to things that are unhealthy for all.
You follow that by stating that provided examples of underage bans are things that are not things with negative impacts on populations.
I'd suggest that real world examples exist of adolecsent alcohol induced brain damage, drivers 10-16 having higher rates of accidents causing death and injury, child soldiers having a negative impact on society, industrial scale under age sex in Christian Brother homes having bad outcomes, early exposure to excessive porn being cited as causing brain rot and social malfunction, etc.
As for:
> we regulated smoking out of the market through a combination of safety regulations, limitations on marketing etc.
I'd point to Australia that started down that path with good results, and continued further only to regulate tobacco out of "regular" markets into the embrace of black markets that come with worse problems than the older established markets that "had a code" (established criminals rarely went after family or indiscriminately acted such that bystanders were killed or injured).
You raise interesting questions that deserve deeper thought and consideration.
It asserts that underage bans are usually applied to things that are unhealthy for all.
You follow that by stating that provided examples of underage bans are things that are not things with negative impacts on populations.
I'd suggest that real world examples exist of adolecsent alcohol induced brain damage, drivers 10-16 having higher rates of accidents causing death and injury, child soldiers having a negative impact on society, industrial scale under age sex in Christian Brother homes having bad outcomes, early exposure to excessive porn being cited as causing brain rot and social malfunction, etc.
As for:
> we regulated smoking out of the market through a combination of safety regulations, limitations on marketing etc.
I'd point to Australia that started down that path with good results, and continued further only to regulate tobacco out of "regular" markets into the embrace of black markets that come with worse problems than the older established markets that "had a code" (established criminals rarely went after family or indiscriminately acted such that bystanders were killed or injured).
You raise interesting questions that deserve deeper thought and consideration.