Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[+] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml -17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It is time to begin the war on sobriety

Drug users of all stripes, we must ban together and begin the war on sobriety! People must be forced to use the types of drugs we want, in the amounts we want them to take. No one should be allowed to remain sober! All must comply or face a crushing police state crack down on them and their sober communities.

Sounds ridiculous right? That's you prohibitionists. You are ugly awful people who want to control what I do with my body. And its socially acceptable! Virtuous even!

Go fuck yourselves. Fuck yourselves for the rest of your lives. Nothing lasts forever, not even your war on humanity. Fuck off fuckers!

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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.

[-] RichardNixos@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

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?