📰Offbeat News Uk smoking ban...

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.


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?

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.

Dopious said:

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.

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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.

t2van said:

No it keeps raising so you can never buy them.

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

t2van said:

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

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This maybe.

But then, it's unfashionable anyway, no?

Dopious said:

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.

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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.

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

SilverClouds said:

This maybe.

But then, it's unfashionable anyway, no?

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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.

I don't claim to know how economics and economic shifts and so on work, and so, economically what could trigger something like this, but I do feel that the Government doesn't really give a shit about people's health (unless and until it's something that would severely cripple GDP due to debilitation of manpower).

So that being said I think there's a reason they're making this move which isn't related to adequate health, wellbeing and longevity which they don't give a shit about. If they did, they'd have made a move like this, as well as have imposed greater restrictions on alcohol and fast food a long, long time ago. In fact I heard they had a field day claiming inheritances and pension pots during covid when so many old people were killed of.

Nargil said:

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

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Exactly this.

UnusualSubstance said:

Exactly this.

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Police too busy with other things it seems