A draft law in the UK to create a "smoke-free generation" by banning smoking for anybody born after 2008 has cleared both houses of parliament. Only the king's signature remains for it to become law.
  • 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
      • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Find one. Take a look at it. It bans the ingredients in certain quantities usually because it’s hard to argue with. Just saying “bomb making” is illegal ends up being highly objective. I mean, my propane tank is a kind of bomb really.

        • DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.comEnglish
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          2 days ago

          We’re kinda getting into the weeds here man. What you’re describing is just banning a bomb with extra steps. Regardless, I don’t know what this has to do with your original assertion that an ammo cartridge is basically a bomb.

          • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 days ago

            So if to ban bomb making, you ban anyone from having a quantity of explosive enough to make a bomb, you also banned them from buying a bottle of the gunpowder needed to make bullets. And if you simply have enough bullets, made by you or not, you also have enough for a bomb. It’s very hard to prove an action noone witnessed. Find some bombs in a basement of a house with 4 occupants. None of them are talking. How can you prove which did it. That is why laws usually revolve around possession for this sort of thing. And really, at the end of the day, a bullet is a bomb by most definitions. Hit it just right, and it explodes. It’s just small. Though it could still do some damage without needing to be in a gun.

                • DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.comEnglish
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                  1 day ago

                  I do know what I’m talking about. Your link is incorrect. What you’re showing me a photo of is an ammo cartridge. A cartridge contains a bullet, a casing, gunpowder, and a primer. The part labelled projectile is the bullet. Not all projectiles are bullets, but all bullets are projectiles. The (typically brass) casing houses the gunpowder and the bullet is seated in the opening of the casing, with the primer at the closed end. All these components together is called a cartridge. You can buy bullets on their own, sure, but if you just buy a box of bullets all you are getting is the projectile. If you buy a box of ammo, you are buying a box of cartridges.