Smoking to be banned.

[only1billybonds]

"Hot on the heels of the online safety bill, Sunak is considering bringing in a law that will make it illegal for anyone born after 2009 to buy tobaco products. This is nanny state on steroids, and must be opposed if and when a bill gets read. When i heard a couple of years ago that New Zealand were making this a law i really thought it couldnt happen here. Besides, all it will do is create a massive black market and amber leaf will become the new weed. I have'nt smoked for 6 years now but thats beside the point, and what will be next? Alcohol to be outlawed or at least limits put on how much you can buy. This is where we're heading, once we go cashless, the decision in what and how much you buy will no longer be yours to make. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/22/rishi-sunak-considers-banning-cigarettes-for-next-generation"

[J.Riddle]

"I've seen ex smokers relatives who gave up too late slowly suffocating to death from Emphysema gasping for breathe with oxygen tank keeping them alive, others got lung cancer and succumbed. So I wouldn't be against it. Then again I wouldn't be against a ban on alcohol in the longer term having seen other relatives die of ascites due to cirrhosis of the liver. Ted Fenton ex WHO poster RIP was a good man who succumbed. I realise there would be objections to doing that, but alcohol is a toxic corrosive poison. I speak as a moderate ex smoker and ex drinker who has been diagnosed with copd and has a disfunctional liver. You are poisoning yourself taking both the above, either or both will kill you, just a matter of time depending to quantity taken and the cost to NHS is massive."

[Iron Duke]

"Apart from the obvious issues of freedom of choice and age discrimination, this makes little sense. It has become so expensive to smoke nowadays that most people have turned to vaping. In fact, the tobacco industry was dying on its arse and vaping and e-cigarettes have stepped into the void."

[Sydney_Iron]

"Fuck sake, im an ex-smoker and quit years ago now, it's been banned just about everywhere anyway, but let people at least make a personal choice if they smoke or not, fuck off with your ban. But what's next, once they have smoking banned, then alcohol, fatty foods or sports that are deemed ""dangerous"" like Boxing? We already have some elites calling for bans to Boxing, higher taxation of fast food and booze etc. UK, dogs etc"

[Jim C]

"As RB pointed out, the money made on tax alone will likely prevent this actually happening. IF they do ban it, all that will happen is it will be brought and sold elsewhere. People will still smoke and the already limited police numbers and funds will be wasted on chasing illegal tobacco sales."

[RM10]

"Vaping chemicals will be the next cancer, when will they learn. Inhaling any smoke related product into your throat and lungs isn’t good."

[Pentonville]

"I smoked for 33 years. When I see it now, i just can't believe the pull it had on me. The very thought of puffing that smoke into my lungs etc and the cough and weezing stuns me..I just can't beleive I did it or enjoyed it but at the time I couldn't live without one..its mad."

[Side of Ham]

Anyone born after 2009 is looking to vape rather than smoke tobacco?

[Vexed]

"This could work, ban for non smokers now but the established smokers have to 3x their smoking intake to plug the tax hole. They'll die more quickly that way relieving the NHS burden which will eventually make up for the potential tax deficit of all those dead smokers no longer able to buy fags. Solved."

[RBshorty]

Never happen. Too much money is made from the Tax alone. Try plugging that hole.! Really worked well for the Yanks when they tried and ban the booze. It is PR stunt at best. Trying to sucker in a few voter’s.

[dax47988]

"smoking is pretty disgusting and smokers generally have no idea how much they stink there is no question that this filthy habit should be removed from society, tho a whacking great sledgehammer is probably not the best way"