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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Speaking at the Conservative party conference, Mr Sunak said he believed it was the right step to tackle the leading cause of preventable ill-health.

"Because without a significant change, thousands of children will start smoking in the coming years and have their lives cut short."

But Mr Sunak has decided to throw his backing behind it as a way of meeting the government's ambition for England to be smokefree by 2030 - defined as less than 5% of the population smoking.

The proposal on raising the age of sale of cigarettes is similar to laws being introduced in New Zealand, where buying tobacco products will remain banned for anyone born after 2008.

Mr Sunak also said the government would consider restricting the sale of disposable vapes and look at flavourings and packaging of the devices, to tackle the rising rates of children using them.

"If implemented, the prime minister will deserve great credit for putting the health of UK citizens ahead of the interests of the tobacco lobby."


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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I hate smoking stock photos. Clearly she has never smoked in her life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sure are a lot of authoritarian apologists up in here today

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Authoritarianism is when tobacco companies can't shove cigarettes down my kids neck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not shoving down their neck if they're educated about the danger and choose to do it anyway. That's called free will. Your job isn't to sculpt or control your kids (bc that doesn't ever work), your job is just to show them the ropes and hope they don't fall down too much/too badly.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (17 children)

Because people have been more and more conditioned to obey year after year. To be absolute pushovers who never fight against the grain, never question groupthink, etc. Grandfathering the criminalization (using violent enforcement) of something like smoking a cigarette is a shining example of what's to come.

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[–] Draedron 1 points 2 years ago

Probably the only thing I agree with with him

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