Sunak may ban cigarettes in UK for future generations, the Guardian reports
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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is considering introducing measures that would ban the next generation from ever being able to buy cigarettes, The Guardian reported on Friday, citing government sources.
    • misanthropy@lemm.eeEnglish
      910·
      1 year ago

      If I want to smoke cigarettes you not liking them shouldn’t get in the way of that. Some of us don’t see a long term future in this shit world. A smoke is five minutes of peace. All substances should be legal and regulated.

        • misanthropy@lemm.eeEnglish
          34·
          1 year ago

          Who shit in your cereal, asshole? I vape if I’m out and about, because I’m not an asshole and realize others don’t want to smell cigarettes. Nothing I said indicated I’m out smoking amongst people, I simply said if I choose to smoke, your moral panic shouldn’t step on that, because it doesn’t fucking affect you when I smoke in my car or on my porch with some coffee or a beer. I smoke cigarettes infrequently.

          And no, I don’t toss my butts everywhere either. Eat me. I’m free to hurt myself and mind my own business, like you should.

    • wwaxen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      “which include a ban on selling tobacco to anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 2009”

    • diviledabit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Currently as one becomes 18 it becomes legal to buy tobacco products. Banning for future generations means that this stops being the case and nobody currently under 18 will gain the right to do so on their 18th birthday.

      I can’t imagine this being legally sound - that some citizens have the right to decide for themselves whether to smoke but others don’t.

    • TheActualDevil@sffa.communityEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Why do people always do that? I agree it would be a good move, but because smoking is unhealthy and addictive and it’s existence in our society makes it collectively worse. But here I keep seeing people just say they’re glad because they think cigarettes are icky.

  • gerryflap@feddit.nlEnglish
    96·
    1 year ago

    Very rare based moment for the UK government. Shows you that even a broken clock is right twice a day.

  • febra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Yet again governmental overreach. If people want to smoke, let them smoke. It’s none of your business to babysit adults. I hate it when the government is trying to push people into little boxes. And I am not even a smoker. I hate smoking and think it’s disgusting. At at the same time, I don’t want the state to control every single piece of my life. If I ever decide to smoke, I shall have the right to do so and decide what I put in my body.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Sept 22 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is considering introducing measures that would ban the next generation from ever being able to buy cigarettes, The Guardian reported on Friday, citing government sources.

    Sunak is looking at anti-smoking measures similar to laws New Zealand announced last year, which include a ban on selling tobacco to anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 2009, the report said.

    “We want to encourage more people to quit and meet our ambition to be smokefree by 2030, which is why we have already taken steps to reduce smoking rates,” a British government spokesperson said in an emailed response to Reuters.

    Those measures include free vape kits, a voucher scheme to incentivise pregnant women to quit, and consulting on mandatory cigarette pack inserts, the spokesperson added.

    Britain in May announced it would close a loophole that let retailers give free samples of vapes to children in a clampdown on e-cigarettes.

    Separately, councils in England and Wales in July called on the government to ban the sale of single-use vapes by 2024 on both environmental and health grounds.

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