📰Offbeat News Uk smoking ban...

[t2van]

So it passed today if you are born after 1st Jan 2009 it means every year from now on the age of consent to buy tabaco and cigarettes will rise.

Making it illegal.

It means you could never buy them.

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

The "landmark" legislation aims to stop anyone born after 1 January 2009 from taking up smoking to create a smoke-free generation.

www.bbc.co.uk

Ita deisngned to have an entire generation not smoke.

However people still smoke. Do drugs. Drinks. Legal age or not.


Do you think this is good?

Or do you think will push the sale of tabaco etc underground?

 

[Dopious]

An age limit is good, fewer kids start smoking even if it is a trend by youth to not smoke, a total ban would cause more criminals providing it and up the violence more so not a good idea.

 

[t2van]

An age limit is good, fewer kids start smoking even if it is a trend by youth to not smoke, a total ban would cause more criminals providing it and up the violence more so not a good idea.

No it keeps raising so you can never buy them.

So say your 18 you will need to be 19 and then 20,21 and so on.

 

[Dopious]

No it keeps raising so you can never buy them.

I was talking about the downwards trend of teens starting to smoke, vaping is raising a lot though.

Vapers overtake smokers for first time in Great Britain

Some 5.4 million adults use vapes daily or occasionally compared with 4.9 million using cigarettes, figures show.

www.bbc.com

 

[SilverClouds]

Or do you think will push the sale of tabaco etc underground?

This maybe.

But then, it's unfashionable anyway, no?

 

[Zwielicht]

An age limit is good, fewer kids start smoking even if it is a trend by youth to not smoke, a total ban would cause more criminals providing it and up the violence more so not a good idea.

This.

Have you ever read about Izzy Einstein’s record for finding alcohol in a city during the Prohibition era? It was 33 seconds; she got off a plane, hopped in a taxi, asked where she could score some booze, and the taxi driver handed it to her.

These bans only mean that the people who do seek these drugs out get them from unreliable and potentially dangerous sources. Still, I understand why they wanted to ban it, but the predatory practices around this stuff also need to be dealt with.

 

[Nargil]

Call me old fashioned, but I would probably focus more on stabbings and sex abuse rings first.

 

[t2van]

This maybe.

But then, it's unfashionable anyway, no?

I don't know. It covers everything from cigarets to vaping.

Personally I think once your an adult you can decide what you want to do regardless if it's good or bad for you. Having a smoking limit that is 1 year older than you ALWAYS just seems ridiculous.

I can't see the law staying in for long - not sure how tobacco companies will cope later down the line. If it stays in the next things will be what food you can and can't buy.

As @Nargil said there's bigger things to focus on.