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UK lawmakers approve lifetime smoking ban for today's under-18s
(www.reuters.com)
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Good on the UK... for once...
It seems the minimum age will slowly increase, basically meaning anyone under 18 now and anyone born in the future will be unable to smoke cigarettes.
There will be the classic "black market hurr durr" people like when other drugs were banned, but evidence always shows it's better overall.
*unable to legally purchase
They will continue to smoke and vape. I guarantee it. Their activity will simply be criminalized. Which isn't good for anyone.
The evidence shows people will find a way and prohibitions aren't effect and mostly results in inferior and sometimes dangerous product being sold in place of what should be highly regulated and consistent.
Existing people will, but making something harder to get will reduce smokers. It will also fade out of culture through the generations.
Why do people always think it has to be immediate benefits or none at all?
Harder to legally get*
That doesn't actually make it harder to get...
Exactly and would just be another product to continue the drug dealer child profit mill