Just ban the sale and make people grow it themselves :)
as a smoker, please yes…
Wish we would do this here. Quit wasting money on getting us to quit (we will or won’t by our own energy) and just start raising the minimum age each year til the age is ~50, this will kill the vape and tobacco industry, sadly here this move would (in theory - I’d like to see the actual numbers) lower the amount of money going into healthcare
Jesus this is such a cowardly way to do things. It’s like not dealing with climate change because “I’ll be dead when it’s a problem”.
Other countries: mostly liberalizing drug laws.
UK: passing new drug laws for drugs that have been legal for decades.
Response to this has been insane, so many halfwits think the government having more control over daily lives is somehow a good thing. Terf-islanders just seem to be born and bred authoritarians.
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I understand wanting smoking free generation but don’t think this will work.
People will always find ways to get it, whether legally or illegally obtained. If they can’t get it from the country they’re living, they’ll purchase it overseas. If they can’t purchase ut either overseas some might try to get it through illegal ways.
Hitler also tried banning smoking.
What a dumb fucking comment. Seriously it cost you zero money to not post this.
Are you arguing that kids should be allowed to give themselves cancer and pour money into big tobacco companies and ruin their lives?
Because that sounds awful
throwing out the “UK is literally hitler” comparison, it’s not quite as simple as “make cigarettes illegal.” remember the war on drugs? alcohol prohibition in the states? yea, you’re getting it out of the stores, but at the same time creating a black market that is completely unregulated. i don’t know what the answer is, but no one has come up with one in the history of addiction
There’s a bug difference between telling people who are hopelessly hooked on something that they can’t have it any more, and telling someone they’ll never be allowed to start on it to begin with.
Also, this law doesn’t have to completely eliminate smoking to have done it’s job. All they’re trying to do is reduce it, which reducing availability certainly will
you are right: reduction is good. here’s hoping for a positive outcome
No, banning adults from buying cigarettes is too far. Sin taxes are fine, but pretending informed adults shouldn’t take care of themselves is ridiculous.
The UK is quickly becoming the largest nanny state in history, where everything you do or watch or eat or drink must be approved by the government.
I’m not sure which battle you’re fighting, but this is the wrong one.
Please go hang out with people dying of lung cancer. There is zero benefit to smoking. I get personal freedoms, but you sound like a clown for this argument.
Smoking has zero benefit, and only destroys lives and health and medical services. It’s trash that belongs in the bin.
At this point who does not know smoking causes cancer? The research is older than my parents.
It’s a fully optional and expensive vice that adults who know the risks partake in. Most places don’t let smokers smoke indoors anymore to reduce second hand smoke risks. Nobody lets kids buy cigarettes.
Alcohol is bad for, should it be banned? How about sugar? People might get hurt rock climbing, should that be banned?
I bring up the slippery slope not as a theory, but because we’re watching it happen in the UK with porn bans, forced identity verification, now criminal prosecution of porn actors, pushes to ban VPNs, and all these vice substances. The UK isn’t at the top of a slope they’re rolling down it.
I don’t know how to help you.
Help me what?
