UK smoking ban for those born after 2009

Wouldn't surprise me at all. Gambling, smoking, alcohol, junk food, porn, they're probably all good investments until those pesky politicians stick their noses in.

I'm not making any comment on cannabis. Just that it being illegal clearly hasn't worked.

It's interesting to note that there are still a number of dry counties in various US States, so prohibition at a local level is still in force and maintained where a majority of the local community are opposed to the sale of alcohol - in the US largely down to many Christian denominations condemning the consumption of alcohol by their followers. I doubt very much that this would ever be the case in the UK, but there may be other faiths which are in a very localised majority which might support a form of local prohibition. The benefit to the NHS from the reduction in alcohol-related disease in the local level would obviously be offset on a national scale by the dramatic increase in explosive cranial aneurysms and super-heated urine scalding such a development might cause amongst other sections of the population.

I always wondered how this is measured and how this figure is arrived at. Wonder if the fact that smokers are less likely to get dementia is factored into this sum?

Note that the negative cost of air pollution is £6 billion to the the NHS and alcohol is only £1.7 billion (I think), which surprises me considering how busy the hospitals are with alcohol related casualties. I am guessing alcohol related sickness and work under performance and absence must be high too.

Not likely that that dick’s actions were because he was stoned. I’ve known hundreds of recreational cannabis users during my life and every single one of them has been chilled out and relaxed when stoned, never aggressive.

But sure, blame it on that “evil weed”.

What about the millions of them driving everyday with weed in their system. What’s the point of banning cigarettes when class A drugs are so easily available.
Certain shops around here already do a roaring trade in black market cigs at £5 a packet, this will just increase the trade more

Another nail in the I will decide how you will live before your coffin. If you want to smoke and there is nobody else is even close then smoke. Live your life as you wish as long as others are not involved

Whenever there is any kind of curtailment of smoking it seems to bring out a very binary response of relative enmity to tobacco and its users or frustration at a restriction in freedoms.

In my view our brains are wired to need some kind of psychoactive or psychotropic substance or activity that mimics that effect. Life is so damned hard we all need something to help us cope with the ups and downs.

It’s a paradox that these activities/ substances:

• Bring us all together.
• Attract levy’s and duty as they become more popular
• Wane with discoveries of relative harm to self or others

But the market… the market always finds a way to the next substance

Well good on you,

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It does seem ridiculous. I could procure various classes of illicit drugs in no time at all 24/7 round here, same with vapes & booze. Then there's the amount of people on some sort of prescription from their GP, many with serious side effects &/or addictive qualities, such as antidepressants.
The plan seems utterly unenforceable, as with almost all prohibitions.