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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
By that same logic most food should be illegal
There already is a lot of illegal food.
Illegal for food manufacturers inject your food with rat poison, illegal for them to pump your meat full of chlorine, illegal for them to sprinkle powdered arsenic all over your snacks for flavor, illegal to put snake venom in your food, illegal for them to put heroin in your food, they can’t put just a bit of ketamine on you lunch, they can’t put coke or meth in your soda.
How is this different?
You can eat rat poison all you like, it’s not illegal to sell. It’s simply illegal to offer it as an ingredient in your cookies.
Holy cherry picking batman.
By that logic, cigarettes should be illegal, but raw tabacco leaves should be legal, but not legal to sell to others to consume or included in any other products to put in your body.
Cigarettes have a single purpose, they aren’t an additive in a product they have no business being in.
You aren’t legally allowed to sell rat poison to specifically have people put inside their own body. Cigarettes are specifically sold for you to put into your own body.
Just say that you like cigarettes (or work for a tabacco company) and don’t want them taken away. Which this type of legislation also wouldn’t do. Otherwise, by your logic, let’s make every substance in earth legal to package for human consumption by itself. I’m sure when they advertise meth and cyanide cigarettes to kids like they did tobacco for many years, nothing bad will happen.
I neither smoke (tobacco) or work for a tobacco company, and legalizing drugs (objectively a good thing) doesn’t imply selling to kids. Just say you have an irrational hated of someone else doing something that doesn’t affect you.
Not only that. It’s not legally easy to offer food containing e.g. insects or sawdust.
I read about a company that were selling cookies with sawdust in them as diet products. They put “Contains sawdust to reduce calories” right on the front of the packaging and were advertising it, so a customer would not be misled at all. But it was illegal for them to sell it.
You might need to explain that one a bit for me.
We have a lot of food regulation, sometimes to enforce quality (e.g. no chlorinated chicken), in other cases to encourage better public health (e.g. higher rates of tax on high sugar drinks).
What do you think my statements would make illegal?
Sugar, for one. You aren’t talking about a vice tax, you are talking about outlawing it entirely.
Sorry, you’re still not making any kind of sense. In no way does sugar compare with a product which, in use, actively damages the used and spreads toxic chemicals into the air for all around them. Nothing in my comment would make any stance against sugar remaining legal.