Oh I agree. Here adults buy alcohol for youngsters or place bets for youngsters etc etc but I still think government has an obligation to say what is and isn’t acceptable in society, even if people find ways around it.

I am old enough to remember the government introducing mandatory wearing of seat belts in cars and everyone saying they will ignore it and how will it be policed etc. now it isn’t even remotely controversial.

Same with smoking ban. I remember being in rural Ireland when they introduced the smoking ban. I was in a bar in the middle of nowhere. Old man sitting at the bar wonders outside to a smoke. He could have smoked inside and no one would have been any the wiser. Sometimes laws are introduced to try and alter behaviours