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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My country already has a cigarette black market for cheaper imported cigs. Banning them won't work it'll only make it harder to regulate the industry.

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

Once you spark up it's not obvious at a glance if the cigarette is duty paid or not. There's a marked difference between a lit cigarette and no cigarette.

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

People will just smoke in bushes. Teens already do so they don't get caught by their parents.

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

So by your logic, cigarettes shouldn't be taxed at all?

Also, the way this is proposed kind of avoids the issue. People importing cigarettes already smoke, and they'll be able to in the future because this only targets people born after a certain date to deter them from starting.

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

No, because I don't believe a solution that captures every single black market cigarette is possible. The best solution is to heavily regulate the industry and spread accurate information about cigarettes and I'd also personally ban cigarettes in movies under a certain age rating unless essential to the character in some way such as they develop cancer later in the movie or something.