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UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008 - Feddit.dk
feddit.dk- Technically, the new law will raise the legal age requirement in the UK for
buying cigarettes, cigars or tobacco, which is currently 18, by one year in
every subsequent year, starting on January 1, 2027 - This will effectively mean
that people born on or after January 1, 2009 will never be eligible to buy them
- Retailers will face financial penalties for selling the products to those not
entitled to them - The government will also be empowered to impose a new
registration system for smoking and vaping products entering the country,
seeking to improve oversight - The bill will expand the UK’s indoor smoking ban
to a series of outdoor public spaces, for instance in children’s playgrounds,
outside schools and hospitals - Most indoor spaces that are designated
smoke-free will become vape-free as well - Smoking in designated areas outside
pubs and bars and other hospitality settings will remain permissible - Smoking
and vaping will remain legal in people’s homes - Vaping will become illegal in
cars if someone under the age of 18 is inside, to match existing rules on
smoking - Advertising for smoking and vaping products will be banned - People
aged 18 or older will remain eligible to purchase vaping products, but some
items targeted at younger consumers like disposable vapes have already been
outlawed as part of the program
Pretty sure children in UK are more threatened by getting stabbed or criminal gangs than smoking.
The US has a significantly higher incidence of knife crime than the UK.
Lol, so what? What is your point? Are those threats mutually exclusive or something?
Let’s make stabbing people illegal instead of banning smoking I guess!
Not at all, but what just annoys me is that the UK is harming on things that restricts the population in some way (even tho banning smoking is objectively a good thing), but doesn’t do anything to tackle the rampant gang violence or the myriad of other problems that country currently goes through.
Don’t think the UK or the government as single monolithic entity, people tend to do that. Those in charge of the smoking ban hardly would be the same people that are in charge of tackling the problem of gang violence or many other problems. One team of people not succeeding at their task doesn’t prevent others to do theirs.
Two people can work on two things at the same time.
Oh I’m well aware of that. I’m not saying because they are banning smoking, they can’t ban anything else.
My point is that they tackle the lesser problem first and with much more resolve than they tackle the really critical problems. This isn’t necessarily a UK thing, it’s something that I see with many europeans governments lately, but it just bothers me to see it over and over again.
My point is that those working on lesser problems might come up with solutions much faster than those working on bigger problems, making it seem that they go after them first.
Also not doing anything about anything until the worst problem is perfectly solved is completely idiotic. You’d end up never doing anything at all.