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Dr. Moose@lemmy.world to worldnews@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

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

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

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Dr. Moose@lemmy.world to worldnews@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Sunak proposes raising smoking age every year to create 'smoke-free' generation
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Rishi Sunak has proposed raising the smoking age every year in a move welcomed by health charities but criticised by those in the tobacco industry.
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    Interesting proposal. As a Canadian, I’d rather see smoking banned from apartment balconies and near buildings - since it can come right into peoples’ units.

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      I think that already being experimented on in some European countries. Lithuania did it a few years ago https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1243730/lithuania-bans-smoking-in-balconies

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      Ban all things Nothing could possibly go wrong

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        Allow all things nothing could possibly go wrong.

        Luckily, it’s not an all or nothing, and arguments matter.

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          That’s cool but we’ve seen how prohibition has worked historically and even today so whatever dude

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