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.
LOL!
Actually James I granted the first charter, but to trade more than just slaves.
I wonder if people’s oral fixations are not satisfied by cigarettes if their oral fixations will be satisfied by fags?
Git…”he was such a stupid git”
git. / (ɡɪt) / nounBritish slang. a contemptible person, often a fool. a bastard. usually a man.
Yes. Prohibition of vices never works.
I was happy when the French reported that nicotine was a prophylactic that prevented Covid infections. I used that to shut up my wife’s nagging.
That term “A Fool’s Errand” comes to mind.
Just look at how prohibition turned out in America.
Accept that humans are ultimately imperfect and stop pretending the government has the power and the solution to make everything ‘as it should be’ for everybody.
Don’t infantilize your public, saying ‘I’ll do the thinking for both of us!” or the more rebellious will very quickly lose any respect for the system.
muslim exception of course
Yer not a real king
Parliament has the day so
So they really think shop owners will be carding people with grey hair and full beards?
“I’m so tired...
I’ll have another cigarette
And curse Sir Walter Raleigh
He was such a stupid git!”
John Lennon
You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ENGLISH Border Control: “Aye, mate. Is this tobacco you’re bringing in from France? Appears to be so. About two ounces, I’d say. You know, that’s gonna get you five years in gaol, right? You’re lucky though. Over three ounces and we would be adding an ‘intent to distribute’ charge.”
LOL !
Takes me back.
No need to run out.side in winter for a smoke
PORK will be banished in Britain for everyone
ALCOHOL will be banished in Britain for everyone
SKIRTS will be banished in Britain for women
HOMOSEXUALS will be banished in Britain
JEWS will be banished in Britain
HINDUS will be banished in Britain
CHRISTIANS will be banished in Britain
.......
Hindus will fight back.
It’s going to get real ugly there between them.
Charles III isn’t descended from James II but he is descended from James I (through James’ daughter). The legitimate lines of descent from James II died out in the early 1800s. Possibly there are descendants from illegitimate children if he had any (he did have mistresses) but they don’t count as far as claims to the throne.
I think England has bigger problems to deal with than underage smoking.
Note to the UK’s Deep State: The NHS likely kills more people a year than cancer sticks.
When do you ban the NHS?
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