UK to raise smoking age from 18, by one year, every year.

[SubSSC]

Parliament to have a free vote.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67008051

 

[Mutley1]

Parliament to have a free vote.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67008051

hmmm that will be about as good stopping kids from buying disposables if they want cigs they will get there hands on them same as i did in my early teens.

 

[rew]

Never gonna work. what a waste of time, effort and money.

 

[Deleted member 54254]

I didn't stop smoking for some idealogical claptrap and I do miss the taste of a nice tobacco, I quit for my health but I support anyone who wants to smoke as it's their free choice. All this nanny state stuff pisses me off and is just another means of exerting control over free will.

 

[Toby iVapour]

Other problems with raising legal age of buying cigarettes each year...

It creates a situation in 10 years whereby people will have to prove they are 28 rather than 27 to buy tobacco. Implementing that (and then higher ages) in a retail setting would be extremely difficult and onerous. Of course, all the usual comparisons about military service and other age of majority thresholds will be brought into play.

It is directed at the adolescent population who have an extremely low rate of smoking as it is (presently 1% of 11-15 year olds), for which smoking is increasingly a thing of the past -
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-inf...021/part-1-smoking-prevalence-and-consumption
Those few who still want to smoke will smoke whatever the government says about age restrictions.

 

[stuartd]

Won't work as they will still get them from somewhere so another government load of shite

 

[vapervince]

Has anyone worked out that anyone born one year after this came into being would never be old enough to buy a packet of fags?

 

[Mutley1]

Has anyone worked out that anyone born one year after this came into being would never be old enough to buy a packet of fags?

Or what about those poor bastards born on a leap year [emoji6]

 

[zouzounaki]

Has anyone worked out that anyone born one year after this came into being would never be old enough to buy a packet of fags?

that’s the idea behind it

 

[zouzounaki]

but what about folk with a birthday two weeks after the escalator date? they’ll be in the weird situation of being able to buy fags most of the year, but having to quit for the fortnight before their birthday. maybe they’ve not thought this through.