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.
Thanks for expanding the black market.
What can you do in that ass country.
What can you do in that ass country.
What can you do in that ass country.
Pot dealers restock for on rush double prices.
Menthol already banned in MA …
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This will be a double whammy for Obama.
>Other British bangers ... Best buy date expired ...
One is just, well, expired
Exactly, a new black market. What they can’t have, they want more of.
Meaning that 0.4% of 330 million people in the United States aged 13 and older had HIV, versus 0.07% of persons who were diagnosed with lung cancer, up to 90% of which is caused by smoking, and which is rightly penalized.
However, while smoking is demonized by the Left (though it favors demons), warned of, forbidden to minors, banned in many places, and penalized with exorbitant taxes, and higher insurance rates, yet sodomy is celebrated, promoted, and subsidized, and opponents demonized.
Despite
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These kid’s are spoilt When I was young we had to wait until we were 15 to buy fags
These kid’s are spoilt When I was young we had to wait until we were 15 to buy fags
He keeps this up and he’s headed for a fate not unlike the two King Charles before him. One was executed, the other, deposed.
Government has totaly ended freedom. Not merely “restricted” it. No government has any legitimacy; all must rightfully be overturned. Libertarianism was right all along.
Isaw that as a kid!...........
This statement is far too broad. Gov't has two legitimate functions: 1) the provision of social overhead capital (e.g., those things deemed necessary by society but won't be purchased in private markets, like a standing military, public highways, etc.), and 2) the policing of property rights (e.g., a legal system, police protection, etc.). The problem is that we have let our gov't far over-step their required tasks.
Government has over-stepped. It does many things that it ought not to do.
But even within the realm of what government “ought to do” look at the military — do you have any idea how often the US has invaded a foreign country? Central America? Middle East? Asia? Yes, we probably need a military — but our government uses it inappropriately and has for over 100 years.
And the legal system? The police? My God. We live in a police state and the courts are a joke.
We need to start over and our next version of the Constitution needs to be more explicit about what the government cannot do, and the instant penalties that will be levied against government bureaucrats who break the rules.
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