EdenResterSep 22, 2023

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

The Guardian
Show threadDeathsEmbraceSep 23, 2023
Ban alcohol too or its hypocrisy once again.
Show thread☂️-Sep 23, 2023

ban every single drug and watch how wrong its gonna go

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

Show threadaceshighSep 23, 2023
banning doesn’t actually do anything. people will migrate to a different dissociative substance and it’ll increase bootlegs and criminal activity.
Show threadjasorySep 23, 2023
This doesn’t matter. The question is whether a ban constitutes a greater social harm than legalisation. The fact that people can evade the ban doesn’t matter, after all murder is illegal but people still do it (at a much lower rate).
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the problem is how that ban is evaded.

historically this creates drug lords and an illegal drug trade

Sep 30, 2023 at 7:49pmWeb