• HumanPenguin@feddit.uk
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    17 hours ago

    The idea is to prevent addiction forming in newer generation. Rather then banning those they have already developed addiction.

    The minimum age has been rising for a couple of years.

    This is actually a manifesto promises so has fairly high support. (Unlike almost everything else the gov has done).

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        5 hours ago

        If you’re in your late 70s. You have an excuse. But are not likely to think as you do. But if so. Sorry you were fooled by such arsehole Corporations lieing about their own research for decades.

        If younger. Then you grew up knowing how dangerous smoking was. Even if you failed to believe the government telling you so. You have no excuse for makeing the choices you did.

        And most of us who made those dumb choices do not expect others to take responsibility for them. Even if we find/found stopping hard. In nearly 60 years. Absolutely every government in my lifetime. Has reduced the excuses of the generations forward to fall for the stupidity. Including my father who gave up in his late 60s after cancer. But knew full well how dumb his smoking was when I was a toddler.

        You are entitled to your opinion. But everyone else is also entitled to consider you pathetic. For thinking the government is responsible for fixing your own stupidity.