• 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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[–] 21 points 6 months ago (13 children)

I think you misunderestimate how addictive cigerettes are. My friends mom goes through $80 worth of cigerettes every 2-3 days.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Real question- is that volume or branding? Depending on where you are/what brand, that might be a 1.5-2 pack a day habit of higher quality smokes; not unheard of for a typical heavy smoker. If you’re spending that much on ass-end packs that cost you $6/ea, that’s pushing 4 packs a day, which is like legendary status few can achieve anymore.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Oh, I thought you were replying to thr other message. Still, it's just below here, where I said she smokes 5-8 packs a day.

    She also has this bag of loose tabacco where she rolls her own. She uses that when she can't afford marlborrow.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    How much is a packet there? 🫪

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    About $8, but she smokes 5-8 packs a day.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    5-8 packs a day.

    I can't see how this is even possible for a couple, much less one person.

    I GREW UP IN A HOUSE OF CHAIN SMOKERS, my older sister and brother and both parents.

    Are you sure about this or just guestimating?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Holy shitballs.

    Is she just smoking nonstop the whole day?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Right,but theyre not banning it for people like her.... theyre banning it for people born after 2008. Is your mom 18 years old?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    Are you claiming that minors don't smoke because it's not legal? That's what you're going with?

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  • [–] -5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    God youre annoying.

    Youre just looking to be combative. Youre cool dude, so cool, just so so cool that you should go back to reddit. So fucking cool how you intentionally need to argue the most braindead niche "uhm actually" talking point you can muster.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    You can just not respond next time mate. When you type out a comment like this; just go "nah" and hit "discard" next time.

    Also, your entire point rests on "they won't do it because it's bad for them AND illegal".

    Have you ever been a teenager? Something that they are told "your too young to do that" is like crack for them. It's not "niche" to consider this major factor of how people get addicted early in life.

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