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UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008
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Just ban smoking in public places. I don't want people blowing smoke at me when I'm walking down the street or when I'm siting outside drinking coffee. If they want to smoke in their apartment or their car it's their business. It would be easier to fight people smoking in the street than check what age every smoker is.
No! This is a huge problem in itself unless they have their own house. The smoke gets into the hallways and into other apartments as well, and it's fucking awful. Even just smoking on the balcony the smoke gets inside neighboring apartments, having lived through that. I have asthma and everyone smoking inside apartments deserves a kick to the shin
The healthcare costs are collectively borne by the public, no matter where you smoke. And indirect damage for kids and others in the same household should also not be underestimated.
All healthcare costs are borne collectively. Being obese increases healthcare costs. Extreme sports increase healthcare costs. Alcohol increases costs. Why ban smoking for that reason but not the other?
So "save the children" is ok in that context? We don't trust parents now and should be banning things that can hurt kids? Like porn, social media or sugar?
What the UK did is a step in the right direction. You can't argue that this is only valid if they ban the other things you listed as well. You need to start somewhere. Norway for example went a different route and increased taxes on alcohol and sugar to reach a healthier population
I'm not saying it's all or nothing. I'm saying that banning things that raise healthcare costs is silly. Lots of people do things that raise healthcare costs. I don't think that smokers should be punished for raising healthcare costs while I'm allowed to practice high risk sports. It's unfair.
What Norway did is completely different as it still leaves it up to people. You promote good habits, not criminalize bad ones.
Cigarette smokers are actually supporting pension plans because they die fast and cheap before they see benefits.
..... public space...
Yes, public spaces too.
You understand what public means right?
So you want to regulate.. what people.. animals.. do outside.. in nature.. our natural habitat.. the area with the most air flow imaginable.. and that's still a problem.. get over yourself
Yes, totally.
This seems like a much more reasonable, enforceable, and frankly more effective approach. It also seems more in line with respecting personal freedoms to do things even that harm yourself so long as no one else is being harmed.
I am a tankie - literally as far from a libertarian as you can get - and even I am struck by the seeming lack of concern over stripping away the freedoms of one demographic in particular. Honestly I’d prefer to see cigarettes banned outright than to say some people can buy them while others can’t. Gonna be weird in like 2050 when a 43 year old can buy smokes but a 42 year old can’t.
Exactly, how will they enforce it in like 10-20 years? Police will stop and check everyone who's looking too young to smoke? Some young looking guy in his 30 will have to show his ID to cops all the time? Right now it's working because shop owners enforce it, parents enforce it and you can generally spot kids when they are hanging out. Parents don't usually buy cigarettes for their kids but what if a 30 year old will buy cigarettes for their friend or spouse that's 29 and can't legally smoke?