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Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed
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Philip Morris International thanks you for your brave defense of products that only exist to create lifelong addictions, make unfathomably massive corporations unfathomable amounts of money, and induce severe chronic health conditions.
Sorry it apparently didn't work out for you; hopefully fewer kids in the UK born after 2008 will have the same mistake imposed upon them.
We could ban advertising and attractive packaging. We could provide non-carcinogenic alternatives like nicotine gum or snus made with synthetic nicotine so no profits go to Philip Morris. We could heavily fine people who smoke around children and other non-smokers. We have all of these regulatory scalpels at our disposable but for some reason we're always reaching for the nuclear option of prohibition. When will we learn?