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  • warm@kbin.earth
    7·
    8 hours ago

    Good on the UK… for once…

    It seems the minimum age will slowly increase, basically meaning anyone under 18 now and anyone born in the future will be unable to smoke cigarettes.

    There will be the classic “black market hurr durr” people like when other drugs were banned, but evidence always shows it’s better overall.

    • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      6 hours ago

      So the idea is that we want to legalize marijuana because its totally unreasonable for the government to tell us what we can put in our body, but also ban tobacco because “its bad.” Is that about the size of it?

      • warm@kbin.earth
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Both are bad for you. Ideally the UK would spend on education and people would just choose themselves not to smoke, but I guess they would rather ban it and keep the population dumb.

      • PugJesus@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Tobacco is considerably worse.

        In any case, this doesn’t appear to criminalize possession, which is the usual sticking point for people against drug prohibition.

    • FireXtol@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      *unable to legally purchase

      They will continue to smoke and vape. I guarantee it. Their activity will simply be criminalized. Which isn’t good for anyone.

      The evidence shows people will find a way and prohibitions aren’t effect and mostly results in inferior and sometimes dangerous product being sold in place of what should be highly regulated and consistent.

      • warm@kbin.earth
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Existing people will, but making something harder to get will reduce smokers. It will also fade out of culture through the generations.

        Why do people always think it has to be immediate benefits or none at all?

  • Lantsu@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    10 hours ago

    Is the ban also on vapes, e-cigs, snus and nicotine pouches etc? Or only for cigarettes? Either way, the black market will work out for the people who want to use these products.