Originally Posted by DamageX

Here's a simple one: they changed the law so that cigarettes and other tobacco products can only be sold in specialty stores, with a license to sell such products. So now, instead of buying your smokes at the kiosk in front of the subway station, you get to make a 5 min detour to buy them. Sure, not the end of the world for smokers themselves. But this not only created a tobacco cartel, where the license approval process turns very corrupt, but it also cut into the profits of the average small-guy shop owner. Not to mention that it makes price hikes much more likely, due to a number of reasons.

Booze, on the other hand, is till being sold freely.