alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoSunak proposes raising smoking age every year to create 'smoke-free' generationnews.sky.comexternal-linkmessage-square350fedilinkarrow-up1832arrow-down131cross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.world
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minus-squarefosforus@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up60arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoGreat goal but like with all other narcotics, wouldn’t this just create a huge black market and thus massively fund criminal organizations?
minus-squarePhlubbaDubba@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down2·1 year agoI’m not so sure Cigarettes are not often seen with the same attraction as other drugs The draw from younger potential customers is greatly outweighed by far less harmful stuff like weed or even shrooms
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoI don’t think they’re going to give people twenty years for selling cigarettes to minors.
minus-squareV H@lemmy.stad.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI think chances are we are at a stage where most would-be smokers would just opt for vaping, given that while it sounds like he wants some restrictions on that as well, it doesn’t like that’d be subjected to the year over year age increase?
Great goal but like with all other narcotics, wouldn’t this just create a huge black market and thus massively fund criminal organizations?
I’m not so sure
Cigarettes are not often seen with the same attraction as other drugs
The draw from younger potential customers is greatly outweighed by far less harmful stuff like weed or even shrooms
I don’t think they’re going to give people twenty years for selling cigarettes to minors.
I think chances are we are at a stage where most would-be smokers would just opt for vaping, given that while it sounds like he wants some restrictions on that as well, it doesn’t like that’d be subjected to the year over year age increase?