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STUBBED OUT Smoking will be banned in plan to stop next generation buying fags, Charles confirms in King’s Speech
Sun - UK ^ | Noa Hoffman Published: 6:41 ET, Nov 7 2023Updated: 11:31 ET, Nov 7 2023

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: britain; charlesiii; europe; houseofwindsor; smoking; unitedkingdom
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To: motor_racer

LOL!


41 posted on 11/07/2023 12:29:53 PM PST by nutmeg (FJB)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Actually James I granted the first charter, but to trade more than just slaves.


42 posted on 11/07/2023 12:30:23 PM PST by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.)
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To: Red Badger

I wonder if people’s oral fixations are not satisfied by cigarettes if their oral fixations will be satisfied by fags?


43 posted on 11/07/2023 12:32:21 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Rebuild the Temple.)
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To: Rinnwald

Git…”he was such a stupid git”

git. / (ɡɪt) / nounBritish slang. a contemptible person, often a fool. a bastard. usually a man.


44 posted on 11/07/2023 12:32:21 PM PST by chuck allen
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To: Red Badger
It takes all sorts...


45 posted on 11/07/2023 12:32:35 PM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Red Badger

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.


46 posted on 11/07/2023 12:33:09 PM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: Red Badger

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.


47 posted on 11/07/2023 12:34:59 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Red Badger

muslim exception of course


48 posted on 11/07/2023 12:36:23 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Yer not a real king

Parliament has the day so


49 posted on 11/07/2023 12:38:05 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Red Badger

So they really think shop owners will be carding people with grey hair and full beards?


50 posted on 11/07/2023 12:38:41 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: gundog

“I’m so tired...
I’ll have another cigarette
And curse Sir Walter Raleigh
He was such a stupid git!”

John Lennon


51 posted on 11/07/2023 12:40:08 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Vendome

You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!


52 posted on 11/07/2023 12:40:55 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

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.”


53 posted on 11/07/2023 12:49:47 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: gundog

LOL !

Takes me back.

No need to run out.side in winter for a smoke


54 posted on 11/07/2023 12:49:53 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Red Badger

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
.......


55 posted on 11/07/2023 12:49:59 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Organic Panic

Hindus will fight back.

It’s going to get real ugly there between them.


56 posted on 11/07/2023 12:50:49 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SJackson

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.


57 posted on 11/07/2023 12:54:43 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Red Badger

I think England has bigger problems to deal with than underage smoking.


58 posted on 11/07/2023 12:55:53 PM PST by marron
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To: Red Badger

Note to the UK’s Deep State: The NHS likely kills more people a year than cancer sticks.

When do you ban the NHS?


59 posted on 11/07/2023 1:00:12 PM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Red Badger
Charles knows a lot about fags.

60 posted on 11/07/2023 1:01:43 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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