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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
Actually people growing old and developing dementia or Alzheimer are much more expensive than people dying (relatively) young of lung cancer from smoking.
Sure, but one of those is caused by negligence or willful neglect, the other is at this time considered incidental/accidental.
Seems obvious why one of them should be illegal, doesn’t it?
Damnit John you have dementia because you worked at a dry cleaner doesn’t ring quite the same way as Damnit John you have lung cancer because you smoked cigarettes everyday of your life.
Obviously you’re right, and morally this is terrible, but the other guy still has a point financially speaking. It doesn’t matter if it’s your fault or not, the best thing to happen to your social systems like public health care and retirement would be if you worked for 30 years and then died of a stroke or something fast like that. Cigarettes are great for that.
man that is a dark bleak way to view the world, I don’t condemn it, but I also don’t condone it.
People are not numbers.
I agree, it’s a terrible way to look at things and if someone actually thinks like that I would definitely assume they are a complete psychopath.
I just was trying to elaborate a bit on the point that that guy made. I don’t know if he came up with it on his own, but this whole issue is discussed in the movie „Thank you for smoking“
I would kinda disagree with you on the part about smoking being voluntary tho. Not a smoker anymore, but it’s by far the most addictive drug I know and I tried my share. I used to be quite addicted to Nicotine and it’s incredibly hard to get off it. To the point where I still get cravings years later when I walk past someone smoking. Most people start when they are kids and easily manipulated into it. Addiction is a sickness, not a choice.