Rishi Sunak has proposed raising the smoking age every year in a move welcomed by health charities but criticised by those in the tobacco industry.
  • ABCDE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    You can imagine it, it would be less than the amount that is currently being smoked.

    • 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Not necessarily. People could actually start smoking more because tax free cigarettes are astronomically cheaper

      • ABCDE@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        Are people smoking less weed now it’s legal in many US states?

        Where do you think tax free cigarettes are going to come from?

        • 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          They are either domestic bootlegs or imports. If cigarettes were actually fully banned, organized crime groups would begin mass cigarette smuggling and manufacturing operations. Sounds ridiculous, but it’s true

          • ABCDE@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            People don’t enjoy or need smoking that much, so no.

            And my first question?