Eradicate your freedom to make your own choice about drugs, including drugs which might save your life. It may be noble for private individuals to attempt to persuade a youngster he should not smoke, but it is an evil goal for the state to seek the use of force to prevent such activity. Prevention requires that the state abolish your freedom to decide what is best for your child, restrict your freedom of speech and violate property rights. Statists count on most believing that what has failed in the past will work in the future if the preventive measures are more stringent. While it is reported that we have had a temporary drop in crime, the fact remains that crime, which is caused by ideas of statism, is many times higher than it was fifty years ago.
Prevention destroys the liberty of all in order to prevent the evil of the few.
It shackles the innocent in order to prevent the potentially guilty from committing a crime. With prevention, there are masters and slaves, rulers and the ruled, regulators and the regulated, dictators and obedient followers. You are not punished, by the loss of your freedom, for the wrongdoing, real or imagined, of others.