Sunak proposes raising smoking age every year to create 'smoke-free' generation

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Sunak proposes raising smoking age every year to create 'smoke-free' generation
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Humans have been smoking tobacco for thousands of years. Banning it will only allow the black market to swell to an unimaginable size

These are cigarettes. Engineered to be as addictive as possible. We aren't talking about hand rolled stogies here

They absolutely are talking about any form of tobacco...hell track and trace in the EU has effectively destroyed the nasal snuff industry in Germany...a form of tobacco that has no deaths on its hands... literally. This is just ignorance being used in the name of "think of the children" hell that's one of the main things everyone keeps bringing up in this thread.

Meanwhile, smoking has been on a sharp decline for decades, is no longer a mass killer...while obesity is and alcoholism has grown 10 fold, so much so that they created a new label called social drinkers because it would put a massive amount of the population into alcoholic territory.

You can imagine it, it would be less than the amount that is currently being smoked.

Not necessarily. People could actually start smoking more because tax free cigarettes are astronomically cheaper

Are people smoking less weed now it's legal in many US states?

Where do you think tax free cigarettes are going to come from?

They are either domestic bootlegs or imports. If cigarettes were actually fully banned, organized crime groups would begin mass cigarette smuggling and manufacturing operations. Sounds ridiculous, but it's true

People don't enjoy or need smoking that much, so no.

And my first question?

By that logic we should continue slavery. Aren't you worried someone's going to purchase one of your children on the black market!?