Plan to raise smoking age to 21 to be unveiled amid cabinet splits
Either they’re adults capable of making their own decisions or they’re too young to vote.
Fuck off.
Plan to raise smoking age to 21 to be unveiled amid cabinet splits
Either they’re adults capable of making their own decisions or they’re too young to vote.
Fuck off.
And will it be racism if they flog any illegal puff peddler who doesn’t have a pure white skin? So only whites will be persecuted if they break these laws??
I’ll admit that, out of sheer selfishness, I’m happy to avoid the smell of smoke so I like those regulations. But anything else is utter bullshit.
Since the ratbags are pissing away our money faster than they can print it, they should make sure the profits are looted by the tax collectors instead of the smugglers.
At the same time Sadiq (Khan) is discussing de-criminalising cannabis. After visiting LA. I wonder what he saw in the left wing, social experiment with the highest number of residents leaving to go live somewhere else, that is California that impressed him so?
“Either they’re adults capable of making their own decisions or they’re too young to vote”
The latter.
Raising the voting age to 21 would probably be a popular move, especially amongst Tory voters.
There is no smoking age. There is an age for buying tobacco and such. And that is already overreach.
The issue of raising the voting age is a tricky one. Should the threshold be 25 or 35?
I listened to a program on brain development not long ago and they were saying that the brain doesn’t stop developing until the age of about 22. The last part to develop is impulse control and the ability to reason, which is why young people to to be at the extremes of whatever is being considered.
So perhaps as our forebears knee a thing or 2 when the age of majority was set at 21 or even 25.
Boganboy doesn’t like the smell of smoke – neither do I. I hate it especially when the smoker in a restaurant (as they used to do) holds the item at arms’ length so the smoke doesn’t go in their eyes but contaminates mine, my clothes and all the rest. On close inspection, it was normally a woman with discoloured teeth and those smoker’s wrinkles in their top lip, incipient if the woman was below a certain age.
Oddly, as a child I was never conscious of the stench from my mother smoking. (She used to boast that she’d smoked all her adult life, but then she did suffer a lot of strokes). Were cigarettes different in the past? They were certainly a lot cheaper. I’m frankly amazed at the price these days.
Back in the 1960s I went out briefly with a girl who smoked. Never again. But it does remind me of the quip:
“Do you smoke after sex?”
“Dunno. I’ve never looked.”
Once saw a poster on the wall of a Gents in Dover: ‘Buying smuggled tobacco helps organized crime.’ Underneath some blighter had written :’Buying taxed tobacco helps disorganized crime.’
It’s only fair they enact an IQ requirement for Parliament in exchange.
@rhoda klapp, June 9, 2022 at 9:30 am
There is no smoking age. There is an age for buying tobacco and such/
Close, but no cigar
There is no smoking age. There is an age for Selling tobacco to and such (alcohol). The buying is legal
As Tim says, Gov’t should tell the misablist puritans, copying St Ardern, to FO