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UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008 (www.dw.com)
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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
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[–] 1 point 6 months ago (4 children)

If a law is passed making what they're doing illegal and they continue to do it, then they are committing a crime.

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

    You really wrote that right? So don't like someones rights. Justify taking them away because you wrote a law to make what they were doing a crime. It wasn't a crime until you decided it was okay to take their rights away. So they hadn't committed a crime when you made the law.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    "Rights" are just things that aren't outlawed. Do you have a right to commit murder, and are upset that the government has outlawed it?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Rights are rights until they are outlawed. So you can't justify making a law to take away someones rights because after the law they will be criminals.

    And no, I am not upset that there is a law against murder. Because murder impacts others directly. But smoking alone in your basement doesn't. Big difference. A law making it illegal to force others to inhale your smoke and such... fine by me. Make it illegal to smoke at all. Not fine by me.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago

    Rights are rights until they are outlawed. So you can't justify making a law to take away someones rights because after the law they will be criminals.

    Exactly. People have a right to murder other people, until the damn government trampled all over their rights by making it illegal!

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