UK To Ban Generation Alpha From Ever Smoking

[jimbob007]

Plans to stop young people born since 2009 ever smoking are being debated and will be voted on later. Rishi Sunak's bill aims to create the UK's first smoke-free generation in a major public health intervention. The Tobacco and Vapes Bill would ensure anyone turning 15 from this year would be banned from buying cigarettes, and also aims to make vapes less appealing to children. A number of Tory MPs have told the BBC they won't back the bill.

The BBC understands that Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch is considering voting against the plans. Conservative MPs will get a free vote on it so they won't be ordered to vote with the government, but the bill is likely to pass as it has Labour support. The bill would make the sale of tobacco products, rather than the act of smoking, illegal. Tobacco use is the UK's single biggest preventable cause of death, killing two-thirds of long-term users and causing 80,000 deaths every year.

Proposed new legislation announced on 4 October by the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, will make it an offence for anyone born from 1 January 2009 to be sold tobacco products—effectively raising the legal smoking age by a year each year until it applies to the whole population.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68816566

[BalognaNbeans]

Brootal

[AWillis]

Ibby won't be happy. he loves his vape

[JayJ350]

This will probably backfire bigly. Nothing makes kids want to do something more than telling them they can't do it.

[jimbob007]

Ibby won't be happy. he loves his vape

Only Tobacco products, not Nicotine vapes.

[FelixTheCat1919]

Let them drink themselves stupid as much as they want though

lmao at anyone calling for bans on stuff like weed and tobacco when they fully support and embrace alcohol

[ProudKraut]

Looks like smoking will finally be cool again

[Dave22reborn]

Didn't know that Zoomers even smoked, thought they all vaped.

[OliverHeldens]

I honestly don't know a single Gen Z American kid who smokes cigs. Lots of them vape. But I honestly stopped smoking(even while drinking at 3AM) because smoking cigs is an instant identifier that you're over 35 nowadays.

Still tons of Euro Gen Z smoke cigs though. Maybe not UK though, mostly German and French.

[helpmee]

Imagine telling a 50 year old in blank number of years they cant buy cigs

[RocknRollMuscle]

yeah so much for freedoms huh? It's cuck uk.

doesn't most of europe smoke?

btw: sugar and processed foods is COMPLETELY legal

[jimbob007]

Imagine telling a 50 year old in blank number of years they cant buy cigs

They are safe-the government want the revenue from f a g s & know those people are never going to stop until they drop. It just effects people born 2009 or later. They just put the smoking age up a year every year-the people it effects will never be able to buy them legally, so they can't buy them at 18, or 50 decades down the line.

[yabbayabba]

Can't spell cuck without the UK. Absolutely brutal how the spirit of the white man has been broken in Eurocuckland.

[jimbob007]

Looks like smoking will finally be cool again

Nothing made smoking cooler than anti smoking UK adverts.

[AWillis]

Only Tobacco products, not Nicotine vapes.

he will be relieved

[FelixTheCat1919]

I honestly don't know a single Gen Z American kid who smokes cigs. Lots of them vape. But I honestly stopped smoking(even while drinking at 3AM) because smoking cigs is an instant identifier that you're over 35 nowadays.

Still tons of Euro Gen Z smoke cigs though. Maybe not UK though, mostly German and French.

Gen Z in America is beyond obsessed with vaping

[aranadiscoteca]

Stupid thing is tin 20 years a 35 year old won't be allowed to buy cigs but a 36 year old will.

NZ scrapped their stupid "first in the world" ban.

Fukn nanny state.