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Posted on 04/21/2026 12:27:19 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Children who do not reach the age of 18 before January 1, 2027 will never be permitted to buy cigarettes or tobacco products in the UK, once a new law that has now completely cleared parliament gets royal assent from King Charles III.
The rules will apply in all four of the UK's constituent countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
This will effectively mean that people born on or after January 1, 2009 will never be eligible to buy them...
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...
Monday's session in the House of Lords provided the final green light to a series of minor technical changes, designed to remove errors and flaws identified within the bill, in order to finalize a bill that had already cleared all three readings in both the upper and lower houses of parliament.
As a result, even the opposition lawmakers who had opposed the idea did not resist the passage of the six amendments.
Baroness Gillian Merron, of the ruling Labour Party and part of the Department of Health and Social Care, spoke in favor of the law changes at "the end of the Bill's journey through our Parliament."
"It is a landmark Bill, my lords, it will create a smoke-free generation. It is, in fact, the biggest public health intervention in a generation and I can assure all noble Lords that it will save lives. I commend it to the House," Merron said.
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Oppress Harder UK... Not nearly enough!
As long as it doesn’t apply to the opium dens.
It’s almost like none of the government types have ever studied history. Prohibition redux.
The US should not ban tobacco. But every state in the US should prohibit Medicaid to anyone born after 2008 who uses tobacco, alcohol, drugs, or has STD. These are bad lifestyle choices a person is free to make. But taxpayers should not incentivize these lifestyle choices.
But no doubt someone else is already there. {snicker}
But think of the poor refugees who smoke! Surely they won’t enforce this rule for them!
Fascist England
So Brits can get raped and/or murdered by a pack of illegals but they can’t smoke a cigarette?
I agree.
I would ban believing in socialism, communism or islam.
I hear you - although I’ve heard the same argument for private insurance. It’s still “pooling a fund” to cover various medical needs. Should your medical insurance premiums be based on lifestyle choices? If so, how far do you go? A drink once a day, a week, never? What type of exercise should you engage in, for how long? What if you can’t?
Etc. etc.
As long as those people don’t have to pay medicaid taxes than I agree,
“But every state in the US should prohibit Medicaid to anyone born after 2008 who uses tobacco, alcohol, drugs, or has STD.”
What about Medicare?
Wow!
Just imagine what a smoke-free islamist population will accomplish in all those UK provinces...
Good luck with that bit of Nanny-State bureaucracy.
I guess there were not enough bad drivers to harvest for fees, fines and penalties.
This is classic anarcho-tyranny at work.
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/view/anarcho-tyranny-u-s-a/
It is a feature of failed empires.
Is smoking marijuana ok? What about sitting around a campfire? Cooking foods in a smoker?
I’m assuming this is only for the native-born White population.
Drinking is next, under the new caliphate.
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