If we legalized loosies, we’d have one less violation and we’d be encouraging voluntary transactions. Legalizing them would hurt nobody.
If loosies were legal, then the police wouldn’t have stopped Garner.
Why do you want to protect Big Government revenuers and Big Tobacco?
Garner was not killed because NYC makes it illegal to sell individual cigarettes, or because he was violating probation, or for unpaid tickets, or because he was jay walking, or for urinating in public, he died because of a policing problem that needs to be fixed.