Sunak proposes raising smoking age every year to create 'smoke-free' generation
news.sky.com
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.
      • SpziEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        Allow all things nothing could possibly go wrong.

        Luckily, it’s not an all or nothing, and arguments matter.

        • @itsdavetho@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2•2 years ago

          That’s cool but we’ve seen how prohibition has worked historically and even today so whatever dude

  • Dr. MooseOPEnglish
    4•2 years ago

    I was wondering what is Lemmy’s opinion on this?

    Personally, I really don’t understand the purpose of prohibition laws. It’s some sort of virtue signaling? I don’t smoke tobacco but this seems just silly. People will get shitty black market cigs that’ll be much worse. If they really cared about the people wouldn’t addiction programs be funded instead of prohibition? Especially when the science is clearly in favor of the former.

    • Poplar?English
      8•2 years ago

      I imagine some addicts would continue to buy from the black market but most people probably will stop once the convenience of e.g getting it from the grocers no longer exists. Not to mention it would make it harder to become addicted to begin with.

      • Dr. MooseOPEnglish
        0•2 years ago

        Prohibition has never turned out this way though. If there’s a market there will be so many black market sellers that the convenience factor will quickly become irrelevant. It could also make smoking cool again.

    • @timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      I don’t get it. I’m not in the UK but having read this article on other communities I was very surprised to see so many people support banning smoking.

      Yeah it’s not healthy but a lot of things aren’t. Drinking, fast food, soda, etc etc. Are you gonna go banning all that too? Believe it or not a lot of people are aware of the health effects and made a choice to continue doing so. I think effort would be better spent helping those quit who want to.