The owner told me most people don't get the joke.
Posted on 11/07/2023 12:10:39 PM PST by Red Badger
SMOKING will be banished in Britain for youngsters, King Charles confirmed today.
At the state opening of Parliament, the monarch confirmed Rishi Sunak will mount an historic crackdown on cigarettes by raising the legal age every year until there are no smokers left.
The PM has previously said: "We must tackle the single biggest entirely preventable cause of ill health disability and death.
"And that is smoking, and our country. Smoking causes, one in four cancer deaths."
The new plans mean a 14-year-old today will never legally be sold a cigarette.
The tough new anti-smoking measures would see the smoking age increased by a year every year to eventually make it illegal for anyone to buy cigarettes.
The ban will be subject to a "free vote" in Parliament, meaning MPs will not be told how to vote by party enforcers.
But Labour has confirmed its intention to vote with the government, so the new law will fly through parliament.
The plan was originally rejected by ministers when suggested previously.
But Mr Sunak has now said: "People take up cigarettes when they are young. Four in five smokers have started by the time they are 20. Later, the vast majority try to quit.
"But many fail because they are addicted and they wish had never taken up the habit in the first place.
"If we could break that cycle if we could stop the start then we would be on our way to ending the biggest cause of preventable death and disease in our country."
The Government is committed to making England “smoke free” by 2030, meaning fewer than 5 per cent of the public using cigarettes.
So now tobacco is going to be a controlled substance in the UK?
Why is tobacco suddenly in the sights of the NWO again?
FJB wants to ban menthol cigarettes because mainly black people smoke them.
I wonder what is really going on?
Thanks, John.
My popcorn is at the ready.
Charles’ ancestor King James I was against tobacco use at first...until he realized that the government could make money from it.
The owner told me most people don't get the joke.
Such a ban would just present job opportunities for smugglers in the United States.
But I don’t know how the Brits would respond. After all, the ban is endorsed by his Imperial Buffoon Charlie the Third.
On the other hand they always speak of world over population and the need to reduce it.
Will they ban Hookahs, that Muslims love so much?
The NHS.
They want you to be healthy when they send you to the gas chambers...................
A nasty habit but America went down hill after everyone stopped smoking
Cheaper to abort than treat cancer.
Lol!
As the article is written, the “ban” would seem to apply only to cigarettes.
It doesn’t seem to apply to cigars, cigarillos, pipes, hookahs, bhangs, miniatures, or other methods of inhaling the smoke of burning weeds ... just cigarettes.
So picture a 14yo with a smoldering Gran Corona sticking out of his mouth ...
He lost his head....................
And James II formed the Royal African Company to sell slaves to the colonies. Of course Charles can disclaim that ancestry since his ancestors were in various German states at the time
Churchill smoked, Hitler didn’t.
Those who don’t police themselves will be policed, and they won’t like it.
Smokers didn’t police themselves.
Wrong on so many levels, but the price is right
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