A draft law in the UK to create a "smoke-free generation" by banning smoking for anybody born after 2008 has cleared both houses of parliament. Only the king's signature remains for it to become law.

A draft law in the UK to create a “smoke-free generation” by banning smoking for anybody born after 2008 has cleared both houses of parliament. Only the king’s signature remains for it to become law.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.dw.com/en/uk-moves-to-ban-smoking-for-everyone-born-after-2008/a-76884561

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  • aev_software@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    5 hours ago

    Meanwhile, the USA has people touting medicinal benefits of tobacco.

    I wonder whether the ban extends to all nicotine products. Some ADHD people I know self-regulate using nicotine since it works better than Adderall and co.

  • notabot@piefed.socialEnglish
    64·
    8 hours ago

    Good. It’s a moronic habit that end up costing everyone else to cover your increased demands on the NHS. Let it become a historical footnote, and a cautionary tale of how far companies will go to chase profits, as soon as possible.

    • Akasazh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      7 hours ago

      Tbf the added lifetime that this will gain will put strain on the NHS as people get older they will have different illnesses.

      Plus banning drugs only Lowes demand to a certain level, at that point people will continue to do it even though it’s illegal.

      • Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        By the time this will have an impact on NHS either neoliberalism has completely destroyed NHS along with the rest of the country or neoliberalism is replaced with an ideology that cares about using tax money on people instead of businesses. So I wouldn’t be all that concerned by the strain on NHS.

      • notabot@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        6 hours ago

        Added lifetime will put more strain on the NHS, but it’s likely to be lower than the cost of treatments for smoking related illnesses and injuries.

        They’ve set the ban for anyone born after 2008 so that it only affects people who shouldn’t have been able to aquire tabacco products anyway, which sidesteps the problem of people continuing to do it even though it’s illegal, as they hopefully wont have started in the first place. As the years pass kids wont have the older kids or adults around them smoking, so the desire should drop even more. Undoubtedly there will be some fools who start just because they’re told not to, but I would hope they are in the tiny minority.

        • Akasazh@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          Ik help you hope it, but I don’t think the savings will out do the tax revenue of the excise tax