A draft law in the UK to create a "smoke-free generation" by banning smoking for anybody born after 2008 has cleared both houses of parliament. Only the king's signature remains for it to become law.
  • 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
  • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    75·
    2 days ago

    if removing individual freedom is never good, then you shouldn’t be able to smoke, because people should have the individual freedom to not breathe your fucking tar smoke.

        • shani66@ani.socialEnglish
          24·
          1 day ago

          Smoke disperses. If you aren’t up someone’s ass while they smoke outside you’ll never even smell it, let alone get health complications from it.

            • liuther9@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              17 hours ago

              Okay then ban farting. I much prefer accidentally inhaling tobacco smoke than someones shit in gas form getting in my lungs

              • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                6 hours ago
                1. farts aren’t harmful. why do smokers have the dumbest comparisons, does it start killing you from the brain? try harder.
                2. people usually are embarrassed to fart and try to hold it to fart away from others as much as possible, despite the fact that it is natural and smoking isn’t.
                3. at least when people fart the smell doesn’t seep into their clothes and hair for a fucking eternity. you think you only stink when you smoke? I get nauseous when a smoker enters a bus from the other end of it. wretched fucks.
                4. people don’t get addicted to farting and try to fart every fucking second of every day all the time and start shaking for a fart if they haven’t farted for 3 minutes. along with #3, this makes it much less likely to smell someone’s fart than their smoke.
          • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            1 day ago

            you only think that because it’s you who stinks and you don’t realize how fucking disgusting you are

            • shani66@ani.socialEnglish
              13·
              21 hours ago

              I don’t smoke, jackass, I’m just not gaslighting myself into thinking it’s noticable when it very clearly isn’t.

    • architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      72·
      1 day ago

      I should then have the freedom to never see an ugly face, either. Also, no fucking tuna fish. It’s nasty. Also I hate the scent of certain perfume. Illegal.

      Also homeless people stink…

      • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        24·
        1 day ago

        seeing a face and being poisoned aren’t comparable, try harder.

        no other drugs are “free” to force on others.

        also smokers are the last people who should say anything about people stinking.