- Technically, the new law will raise the legal age requirement in the UK for buying cigarettes, cigars or tobacco, which is currently 18, by one year in every subsequent year, starting on January 1, 2027
- This will effectively mean that people born on or after January 1, 2009 will never be eligible to buy them
- Retailers will face financial penalties for selling the products to those not entitled to them
- The government will also be empowered to impose a new registration system for smoking and vaping products entering the country, seeking to improve oversight
- The bill will expand the UK’s indoor smoking ban to a series of outdoor public spaces, for instance in children’s playgrounds, outside schools and hospitals
- Most indoor spaces that are designated smoke-free will become vape-free as well
- Smoking in designated areas outside pubs and bars and other hospitality settings will remain permissible
- Smoking and vaping will remain legal in people’s homes
- Vaping will become illegal in cars if someone under the age of 18 is inside, to match existing rules on smoking
- Advertising for smoking and vaping products will be banned
- People aged 18 or older will remain eligible to purchase vaping products, but some items targeted at younger consumers like disposable vapes have already been outlawed as part of the program
You could try to encourage it. And they do, through taxes on booze and less taxes on healthy food.
None of that is the same thing as the government deciding for people what those people can and cannot do with their own goddamn bodies.
This is Basic Freedom 101 stuff.
No, the government should not have the right to arbitrarily bifurcate the population into people it allows to be free and people it does not.
It’s not illegal to smoke. But it’s illegal to sell
So it follows the same principles
No it doesn’t, at all. Unless you are advocating making it illegal to sell any food that isn’t specifically designed by nutritionists to maximize health at the expense of everything else.