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I don't smoke, but this is stupid.
You can't save people from themselves.
Of course you can. Over time fewer and fewer people will smoke.
The number of smokers have been going down for a long time now.
Because of awareness, social stigma, and government bans on tobacco propaganda advertising, not government sales bans.
Look at the middle east and south asia, smoking is bigger than ever, it's like the US in 60s, but worse.
If people want to smoke, government bans won't stop them. Yes, being easy and legal to get makes more people likely to get it, but you won't achieve zero smoking by banning it, you'll just increase black market sales.
Is the illegal sale and organized crime that comes with it worth the reduction of legal consumers?
Right along with your personal freedoms, what a great deal
Where’s my personal freedom as a non smoker?
Because obviously, most smokers don’t give a two sh*ts about other people
Freedom works both ways
No one is making it illegal to be a non smoker, and banning some people from purchasing it doesn't stop people from smoking around you. So congrats you gained nothing and lost nothing but a freedom.
It's like arguing people should be free to drive drunk.
Its nothing like that at all
How? Drunk driving presents a clear and present danger, someone smoking on the roof or in their yard or in dinner alley isn't a threat to anyone.
Personal freedom to pollute the bloodstream of a child before it is born, personal freedom to cause lung disease in people who have to live around smokers.
Banning drunk driving is another attack on personal freedoms?
Banning drunk driving is a false equivelance. A better analogy would be banning alcohol.
..... pick a topic
Whatever we are doing to not turn into a shithole like America seems to be working.
From what I've heard, it absolutely isn't. The uk is just as authoritarian and backwards, the only thing it has doing for it is a lack of weapons (apparently to an absurd extent).
UK based here. sorry to tell you that your sources of information are really poor.
It feels like you're saying that this legislation is stupid because some people will smoke anyway. And I think that's not a fair argument. I don't think anyone claims that this will get rid of smoking entirely, much like outlawing murder will not get rid of all murders. But I do think this will reduce the number of smokers born after 2008.
If you reduce the number of opportunities someone has to start smoking, you will reduce the number of smokers. At least, this makes intuitive sense to me. I don't have any data to back it up. But neither do you, so we're tied there I guess. Or do you? I'm happy to change my mind on this.