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alphacyberranger to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

Sunak proposes raising smoking age every year to create 'smoke-free' generation

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Sunak proposes raising smoking age every year to create 'smoke-free' generation

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alphacyberranger to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago
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Rishi Sunak has proposed raising the smoking age every year in a move welcomed by health charities but criticised by those in the tobacco industry.
  • @gencha@lemm.ee
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    73•2 years ago

    Smoking is redundant today. Kids are getting enough cancer from the environment already.

    • Altima NEO
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      9•2 years ago

      Pretty much anything in the state of California

      • @Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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        6•2 years ago

        This product is known to the state of California

        • Ahri Boy 🏳️‍⚧️
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          1•2 years ago

          Why not making the warnings be available elsewhere?

      • @assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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        1•2 years ago

        That law is an excellent example of knowledge vs wisdom. Knowledge is knowing that some substances may be carcinogenic. Wisdom is knowing that the dosage of a carcinogen is so low it hardly poses any risk.

        To be fair though that’s hard to put on a warning label and harder to explain.

    • @smellythief@lemmy.world
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      9•2 years ago

      It’s not redundant. Harms compound. It’s not like people max out their carcinogenic index or something. 🙄

    • @bobman@unilem.org
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      6•2 years ago

      That wasn’t funny or clever.

      • @Lazylazycat@lemmy.world
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        23•2 years ago

        It’s just a fact, I don’t think it needs to be funny or clever.

        • @bobman@unilem.org
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          1•2 years ago

          It’s not a fact though, but I’m glad we can both agree it wasn’t funny or clever.

          Just hyperbole.

      • @r_se_random@sh.itjust.works
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        8•2 years ago

        True anyways

      • @Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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        5•2 years ago

        Unfortunately these days, you’ll find that reality is neither

      • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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        4•2 years ago

        What is funny or clever, oh great wise bobman of unilem of org?

        • @bobman@unilem.org
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          1•2 years ago

          Lol, why do you people always get upset when someone says something isn’t funny?

          • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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            1•2 years ago

            It was just a rude and aggressive thing to say intended to make someone feel bad about IMO a valid (or at worst innocuous) comment.

            • @bobman@unilem.org
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              1•2 years ago

              Not really. It’s to show them the reality that some people think what they said wasn’t funny.

              You seem to think that it’s only acceptable to say a joke is funny, but not that it isn’t.

              • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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                1•2 years ago

                You seem to think anyone cares about what you think is or isn’t funny.

                • @bobman@unilem.org
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                  1•2 years ago

                  What? Lol.

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