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Rishi Sunak considers banning cigarettes for next generation (www.theguardian.com)

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Rishi Sunak is considering introducing some of the world’s toughest anti-smoking measures that would in effect ban the next generation from ever being able to buy cigarettes, the Guardian has learned.

Whitehall sources said the prime minister was looking at measures similar to those brought in by New Zealand last December. They involved steadily increasing the legal smoking age so tobacco would end up never being sold to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Non-smoking area are also there so that the people around smokers don't have to breathe cancer they never asked for.

A absolutely hate how every time I go eat on a restaurant terrace the experience is ruined by some guy next to me smoking...

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. That is one of the purported reasons for non-smoking areas, all though your actual risk of cancer must be pretty minor surely.

If you worked in a bar then yeah - breathing the smoke-filled air all shift for many years might effect your risk profile.

Catching a whiff of tobacco not so much.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Passive smoking is health problem as soon it's indoor, but even when it's not a health issue, smoke fucking stinks.