- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- Technically, the new law will raise the legal age requirement in the UK for buying cigarettes, cigars or tobacco, which is currently 18, by one year in every subsequent year, starting on January 1, 2027
- This will effectively mean that people born on or after January 1, 2009 will never be eligible to buy them
- Retailers will face financial penalties for selling the products to those not entitled to them
- The government will also be empowered to impose a new registration system for smoking and vaping products entering the country, seeking to improve oversight
- The bill will expand the UK’s indoor smoking ban to a series of outdoor public spaces, for instance in children’s playgrounds, outside schools and hospitals
- Most indoor spaces that are designated smoke-free will become vape-free as well
- Smoking in designated areas outside pubs and bars and other hospitality settings will remain permissible
- Smoking and vaping will remain legal in people’s homes
- Vaping will become illegal in cars if someone under the age of 18 is inside, to match existing rules on smoking
- Advertising for smoking and vaping products will be banned
- People aged 18 or older will remain eligible to purchase vaping products, but some items targeted at younger consumers like disposable vapes have already been outlawed as part of the program
Even if they’re smoking at home, the enormous costs to the healthcare system caused by smokers every year are a burden on the shoulders of everyone in society.
Hm, so alcohol should be banned to? You should see the cost to the healthcare system for that. And what about red meat, causes heart issues. And fried foods too. It’s a long list. And many cost far more than smoking does. So who decides which vices are okay despite the cost, and which aren’t? And why do they get to decide?
We see who decides: the government. In Britain they are elected to do so. That’s democracy. The majority of people are non-smokers, and the tobacco lobby no longer has the power it used to.
Same thing with obesity, but try banning fat people from buying snacks and see how thats recieved.
Obesity is a little different issue since nutrition is not optional; smoking, on the other hand, is quite non-essential.
There are also programs that address the problem of obesity. The regulation of sugar use as an ingredient in food, for example. But laws in this field are subject to greater influence from the food manufacturers’ lobby. The tobacco lobby, on the other hand, no longer wields as much power, as the majority of people are non-smokers.
If you banned everything that costs the public money then your lives would be more miserable than any monk’s in history.
No one here has suggested banning everything that costs the public money.
Smokers, on the other hand, are a minority in society. And in a democratic society, majorities can form to create laws.