news UK bans smoking

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[duybeeGAshantiGA]

Should be banned everywhere in the world tbh. I hate smokers. I hate to be secondhand smoker all the time.

Edited April 18 by duybeeGAshantiGA

[Devin]

united states when?

[WERKER]

30 years time when you need to be 48+ to buy cigarettes

[magazine]

 

(but knowing humans, it's probably gonna have the opposite effect )

[Sombre]

France could never 

[glitch]

1 minute ago, WERKER said:

30 years time when you need to be 48+ to buy cigarettes

It's funny that someone's going to have to keep track of what the latest age limit is 

[Karla Cabello]

we won 

[LustSpell]

I love this ngl

[Anomaly]

 

 

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It means that people born in or after 2009 will never be able to legally buy cigarettes, leading to an effective ban.

Wild method of implementation though. 
 

I wonder how a banning method like this would hypothetically hold up in the US constitutionally. Typically, age discrimination is perfectly constitutional as age is not a suspect class. But this type of age discrimination is a bit different than typical age discrimination as instead of banning below a certain age… it bans completely after a certain birth year.

Edited April 18 by Anomaly

[Better Mistakes]

we're finally doing something right

[Yog]

UK doing something right 

[Lovett]

The Tories actually doing something right for once.

[Illuminati]

Effective immediately, gays can't call each other bri'ish cigs anymore

 

Spoiler

baguette is still available to use

 

Edited April 18 by Illuminati

[SapphireSky]

Good luck with that

[Gelato]

A good idea in theory but completely impossible in practice without inflating the black market.

[Mordecai]

We had this same policy here in NZ

 

Until the new government got in, promised tax cuts (which are f all anyway) and repealed this to balance the books 

[Kh-Loud]

Smoking weed >>>>>>>>> the UK CRAZY DRINKIN HABITS!!! 
 

edit: ooh only cigs ban 

Edited April 18 by Kh-Loud

[KFC]

Clickbait title aside, what an excellent decision

 

Young people are smoking less anyways so it won't affect them so much

[Walk_Away21]

14 minutes ago, duybeeGAshantiGA said:

Should be banned everywhere in the world tbh. I hate smokers. I hate to be secondhand smoker all the time.

MTE. And the weed smell is even worse. Can these people just do edibles thanks.

[abrantino]

People sending their nans to get some cigarettes in the future 

[Message In A Bottle]

 

This will simply drive individuals towards buying vapes or resorting to the illegal sale of cigarettes  

[byzantium]

13 minutes ago, Devin said:

united states when?

The U.S. already had one of the most successful any-smoking campaigns in the world.  

[Anthinos]

Good and Alcohol should be next! 

[holyground13]

I'm... not sure I agree with this. It's a good idea in theory as absolutely smoking is bad for one's health (I've never been a smoker) but it's also someone's prerogative to do so in my view. I also don't know if it will be effective and as people have said - it'll just inflate the black market.