UK smoking ban: MPs to vote on banning young people from buying cigarettes | BBC News
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Published 2024-04-16
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's bill aims to create the country's first smoke-free generation in a major public health intervention.
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill would ensure anyone turning 15 from this year would be banned from buying cigarettes, and also aims to make vapes less appealing to children.
But a number of Tory MPs have told the BBC they won't back the bill.
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All Comments (21)
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Should work well just like the ban on knives,guns and drugs etc
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Id like to know what this gov has been smoking the last 14 years
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All im gonna say is, be prepared for an increase in taxes somewhere. The amount of money the goverment is going to loose overtime will be made up else where.
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Imagine in the future as a 40 year old being told you're not old enough to buy cigarettes!
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Some birds says me,black market would flourished if they do that.
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Now UK desperately needs a ban on littering, with real enforcement!
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If they ban cigarettes then they need to ban unhealthy food since cardiac diseases are the no.1 killer in the UK
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1950s - tobacco smoking good; marijuana smoking bad. Today - tobacco smoking bad; marijuana smoking good. Common sense - ANY kind of smoking = bad.
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Don't let the government fool you that they care about anyone's health .. alcohol kills far more through abuse , drink driving etc etc ......
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That's ageism. They still want to profit from excise taxes instead of banning smokes outright.
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I feel like alcohol does more damage to peoples health, families and friendships.
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They'll get it from somewhere
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And next will be a rule that states you can only have 3 pints in the pub. You can only go out twice a month. You are allowed one pair of shoes per year. Keep your hair short blah blah blah It’s getting like North Korea. If people want to smoke, they will, and no government should have the powers to stop you. People will just sit back and accept it.
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The main reason for banning smoking is the cost to the NHS. Best option would be to make people pay for treatment for smoking related health issues.😊
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People will get it from somewhere else instead. Just a very similar scenario like weed.
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You would have to police this properly. Otherwise I feel like this would open up a black market, where kids will find ways to obtain it when it's not regulated, and end up with laced items with who knows what. You know what would actually end this? Raise prices. Make it hard to pay for. And run ads where you compare the prices/money wasted VS what they could be using that money for instead. And if that doesn't work, give incentives for not smoking. Give tax incentives for youth who proclaim they don't smoke and run programs for youth/festivals where the common theme is no smoking, and use the money you're bound to save on a decrease in hospital visits to pay for it.
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I think the best way to ban smoking is by making it uncool, just like smoking became "cool" because cool movie characters did it, we should try to promote the uncoolness of smoking in the same way.
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Our body, our choice. You shouldn't control every aspect of a person's personal life.
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Let people do what they want don't tell people they can't smoke if someone wants to smoke let them smoke
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A ridiculous idea and won't work. That's why it's never been implemented before worldwide! Can you imagine shopkeepers asking 20-30-40 something adults for their IDs?! 🤦
