Sunak proposes raising smoking age every year to create 'smoke-free' generation

Everyone here is arguing the benefits of prohibition. I'm just interested to know how much money Rishi (and/or his family members/friends/donors) have invested in vaping and nicotine alternatives.

I see angry wankers want to moan for the sake of moaning.

Eliminating smoking is a goos thing! I'll take my wins whenever possible, doesn't happen all that often.

to create 'smoke-free' generation

Of course, not counting the smoke, ash, and other toxic oxidized chemicals that will be kicked up by gas and diesel vehicles with his scrapping the HS2 Manchester line. What a fucking idiot. "Oh no, we brexited ourselves so hard that we're poor now and can't afford to build infrastructure that would stand to enrich multiple cities for hundreds of years!"

Such classic smooth brained thatcherite conservatives. It's mind numbing that people keep voting for them.

Ah yes, because making drugs illegal has worked so well in the past.

Smoking is redundant today. Kids are getting enough cancer from the environment already.

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So we would eliminate smoking the same way we eliminated drug use...by making it illegal.

/S if necessary

Smoking's already dramatically fallen out of popularity with younger people, being replaced by vaping. So I don't think it really matters what they do at this point - smoking's a dinosaur waiting to die.

From someone who has smoked and quit, I was really blind sided by how addictive nicotine was. People talk about adults and what they put in there body but nicotine really is a different monster

Or do it like Germany: make vaping extremely expensive so people go back to smoking. Stupid.

One problem: most smokers start as teens, all while it's forbidden to sell kids the cancer sticks.

Addition: I would punish the selling of tobbaco products to kids even more, including the ability of suing the adults for damages in the future (If it won't cause a cobra problem later on), and also give the ability to non-smoking workers to sue their employers if they give smokers more breaks.

Afaik NZ has already implemented such a rule.

He should also star making crimes illegal so that they can live in a society without crime /s.

Finally something sensible from this guy. Last week it was all big auto lobby nonsense.

I feel we've done a good enough job at making smoking undesirable, effectively banning it is excessive. It would be better to focus on doing what was done to cigarettes to vapes. Kids arent smoking nearly as much but theyre vaping like mad. I see kids as young as 13-14 doing it. Vapes are allowed to look appealing, combine that with their nice smell and flavour, ofc young people are going to gravitate toward them instead.

Make it so vape packaging is bland and has similar warnings as cigarretes, and actually teach kids about addiction instead of just a hard "dont touch these". Everyone with a braincell knows that if you ban something from young people, theyre gonna do it more

But what will boebert do while jerking off dudes at movie theaters?

I think they should raise it by 1 year every 2 years.

Broken clock right twice a day type of deal with Sunak

That's gonna work splendidly since underage people would never dare to smoke!

How is this supposed to be enforced? In a decade's time are shopkeepers going to have to challenge anyone buying a packet of fags who looks under 28? And then later it'll be "sorry mate, can you prove you're 44?" and so on.

I loathe Sunak, his political party and their ideals... but this is pretty good actually Maybe he'll manage to do a single worthwhile thing

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Addressing the annual Tory party conference today, Mr Sunak also promised to restrict the availability of vapes under plans to "put the next generation first".

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Ministers have faced repeated calls to ban vapes to help protect children and reduce the significant environmental impact of the single-use products.

It commissioned a review, published last June and led by Dr Javed Khan, which made a series of recommendations, including increasing the legal age for buying tobacco.

Cancer Research UK's chief executive Michelle Mitchell said: "Raising the age of sale on tobacco products is a critical step on the road to creating the first ever smoke-free generation."

"Future generations of adults who are considered old enough to vote, pay taxes, drive a car and drink alcohol are going to be treated like children and denied the right to buy a product that can be purchased legally by people a year older than them."

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I don't know if that's feasible given that adults are adults after all. But maybe just restrict the sale of cigarettes and make it so burdensome to sell them in shops so most don't even bother. And do the same for vapes. Vapes are ridiculously easy to buy so stick them in the same locked cabinet that other nicotine products go in and ban all advertising and signage.

Imagine turning 18 (or whatever the smoking age is in the UK) and starting to smoke during the year this rule takes effect. Then, every year from that point forward, you'd have to wait for your birthday to start smoking again.

I don't agree with this type of stuff let people do whatever they're going to do freedom is more important

So many things wrong with this. First thing that pops to mind is that Sunak thinks we actually pay attention to these age restrictions.

A show of hands, who here has smoked before it was legal for you to do so? How about drank alcoholic beverages?

The second thing, how much interest does Sunak have in tobacco alternatives? Probably a lot, considering how much he's pushing it...

E: autocorrect mishaps.

Meh. We're all going to be dead from climate change.

Love the "if I don't do it, neither should anyone else" mentality among children in these threads.

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We must save people from themselves! Don't let them make any decisions since they could make bad ones!

I think this is deeply illiberal. There are some cases where bans make sense like the XXL Bully dog ban that has been mooted. But I don't think the government should be able to decide what an adult puts in their own body.

My dad was an oncologist for years and he said that one of the reasons we're having trouble in the NHS is that people have stopped smoking. Unfortunately if you are stricken with lung cancer then your prognosis is not good - and while this is a tragedy - you potentially could end up costing much more money in terms of social care and hospital visits if you carry on to live to a later age but get stricken with a more complex degenerative disease.

This is disappointing. Honestly I has found Sunak to be a relief on the whole after our previous few Prime Ministers, probably on par with Therasa May. In my opinion this is a cynical attempt to steal a policy that Labour's Wes Streeting was going to announce soon in order to take the wind out of his sails.

Punishing the symptom, great idea