>Both the Commons and Lords have settled on a final draft of the "landmark" legislation that aims to stop anyone born after 1 January 2009 from taking up smoking by making it illegal for shops to sell them tobacco, to create a smoke-free generation.>When it gets royal assent, ministers will also have new powers to regulate tobacco, vaping and nicotine products, including their flavours and packaging.Based?https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn08jy6w0l5o
>>533610018They tried this before in New Zealand and it failed. Generational lawmaking is immoral
I don’t smoke anymore but I love the smell of smoke. I love walking into a casino and getting hit with that delicious scent. Some people can’t stand it, but I think it’s only bad when it clings to your clothing and you gotta breathe in your coworkers disgusting cigarette smelling clothes.
>>533610018great now they'll have street gangs peddling tobacco products to school kids.
>>533610018I do not smoke so I do not care one way or another. However in principle this is a very authoritarian bill. It will go the way of the prohibition law in the US though.>>533610194I grew up in the 80s, the smell of cigarette smoke makes me nostalgic
>>533610018I'm about to make so much fucking money lmao.
>2026>Doesn't smoke cigarettesAre you bullied, mentally handicapped or both?>b-but it kills youAnd? Was life a contest about who lives the longest?>it's addicting!!!It's not, as long as you're not under-aged and you can smoke in moderation>it's....IT'S EXPENSIVE!!!Who forces you to buy a pack every day, fucking peat-gavel
>>533610194The smell of a man can be quite intoxicating.
I have really begun hating the UK in recent years
>>533610018A law designed to enrich and empower criminals.
I quit smoking years ago but this is beyond retarded.Kids there days will inhale whatever vapes have and smoke drugs, but regular cigarretes are still treated like the big boogeyman.
>>533612257This. It’s also arguably not that unhealthy for you. Dries out your lungs but that’s about it, the cancer studies were funded by lobbyists planning to sue