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UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008 (www.dw.com)

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Technically, the new law will raise the legal age requirement in the UK for buying cigarettes, cigars or tobacco, which is currently 18, by one year in every subsequent year, starting on January 1, 2027
This will effectively mean that people born on or after January 1, 2009 will never be eligible to buy them
Retailers will face financial penalties for selling the products to those not entitled to them
The government will also be empowered to impose a new registration system for smoking and vaping products entering the country, seeking to improve oversight
The bill will expand the UK's indoor smoking ban to a series of outdoor public spaces, for instance in children's playgrounds, outside schools and hospitals
Most indoor spaces that are designated smoke-free will become vape-free as well
Smoking in designated areas outside pubs and bars and other hospitality settings will remain permissible
Smoking and vaping will remain legal in people's homes
Vaping will become illegal in cars if someone under the age of 18 is inside, to match existing rules on smoking
Advertising for smoking and vaping products will be banned
People aged 18 or older will remain eligible to purchase vaping products, but some items targeted at younger consumers like disposable vapes have already been outlawed as part of the program

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[–] Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This seems like a much more reasonable, enforceable, and frankly more effective approach. It also seems more in line with respecting personal freedoms to do things even that harm yourself so long as no one else is being harmed.

I am a tankie - literally as far from a libertarian as you can get - and even I am struck by the seeming lack of concern over stripping away the freedoms of one demographic in particular. Honestly I’d prefer to see cigarettes banned outright than to say some people can buy them while others can’t. Gonna be weird in like 2050 when a 43 year old can buy smokes but a 42 year old can’t.

[–] ati@piefed.social 1 points 19 hours ago

I didn't realise people actually self-identified as tankies. That's really interesting. Thank you for broadening my conceptions.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gonna be weird in like 2050 when a 43 year old can buy smokes but a 42 year old can’t.

Exactly, how will they enforce it in like 10-20 years? Police will stop and check everyone who's looking too young to smoke? Some young looking guy in his 30 will have to show his ID to cops all the time? Right now it's working because shop owners enforce it, parents enforce it and you can generally spot kids when they are hanging out. Parents don't usually buy cigarettes for their kids but what if a 30 year old will buy cigarettes for their friend or spouse that's 29 and can't legally smoke?

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

The law just makes it illegal to purchase, not illegal to consume.

Still dumb though.