A draft law in the UK to create a "smoke-free generation" by banning smoking for anybody born after 2008 has cleared both houses of parliament. Only the king's signature remains for it to become law.
  • 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
  • DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.comEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    In the English speaking world, not really, no. People with little firearms experience incorrectly refer to cartridges as bullets, but they are exactly that: incorrect.

    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      Oh, you are the master of the English speaking world now. Or is the world just what you can see.
      I could start listing people I know with more experience then you probably are years old that call the bullets. Once ina while they also call it a cartridge. But it’s like 9 times bullet, 1 time cartridge. Oh yeah, and we all speak english and live in part of the english speaking world. You might need to got out a little more often before you speak for people you have no knowledge of.

      • DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        24 hours ago

        Literally not what I said. Its fucking amusing though you telling me I’m wrong because you found a mislabelled image online when you clearly know jack shit about what you’re talking about. Just because you’re able to find someone who speak incorrectly on the subject, that doesn’t make it correct. Educate yourself, please, before you embarrass yourself any further.

        A cartridge,[1][2] also known as a round, is a type of pre-assembled firearm ammunition packaging a projectile (bullet, shot, or slug), a propellant substance (smokeless powder, black powder substitute, or black powder) and an ignition device (primer or percussion cap) within a metallic, paper, or plastic case that is precisely made to fit within the barrel chamber of a breechloading gun, for convenient transportation and handling during shooting.[3] Although in popular usage the term “bullet” is often used to refer to a complete cartridge, the correct usage only refers to the projectile.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartridge_(firearms)

        Now kindly fuck off.

        • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          21 hours ago

          What was it I claimed you said but you didn’t?

          The difference here is when I found that you clearly have experience with people calling it a cartridge vs my experience of people calling it a bullet, I said maybe it varies by where you live. You on the other hand claimed I was incorrect, and started to insult me personally rather than admit that people use different words for things in different areas. You went further to claim to be knowledgeable about how it is referred to in the entire “english speaking world”.
          One of us is willing to admit that the world is bigger than just us, the other not so much.