Rishi Sunak considers banning cigarettes for next generation

Rishi Sunak is considering introducing some of the world’s toughest anti-smoking measures that would in effect ban the next generation from ever being able to buy cigarettes, the Guardian has learned....

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/22/rishi-sunak-considers-banning-cigarettes-for-next-generation

Rishi Sunak considers banning cigarettes for next generation

Exclusive: Sources say law could gradually increase smoking age to ultimately prevent sales to people born after certain year

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Ban alcohol too or its hypocrisy once again.

ban every single drug and watch how wrong its gonna go

they simply cannot stop repeating the mistakes of the past can they

I’m very pro-legalization but honestly tobacco is a shit drug. No real high, very addictive and awful health effects. I don’t see many people going through the hassle of maintaining their addiction illegally if it was banned everywhere.

I don’t see many people going through the hassle of maintaining their addiction illegally

Tobacco addicts are on another level. I’ve met people who kicked cocaine but could’nt quit cigs.

Shit, where I live cigarettes are expensive and there is already a gray market for untaxed tobacco.

I think the reason tobacco is so hard to kick is just because there’s no immediate deleterious effects. Why quit this week when you could quit next week or next month?