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.
  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    82·
    10 months ago

    Discrimination has an actual legal protected definition, it doesn’t just mean I want to do something and I’m not allowed.

    • Anamana@feddit.deEnglish
      14·
      10 months ago

      Care to share it? I’m quite sure it’s applicable in this case.

      Allowing the future 45-year old to smoke, while making it illegal for the future 44-year old, sounds like text book age-based discrimination to me. And the health based age argument (protecting the youth), which is the main reason for smoking/alcohol regulations, doesn’t make sense here, cause they’re not teens anymore.

      • drekly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        By the time they’re 44 hopefully they’re not such crybabies and have learned to accept a law that’s been there their whole life. Or they just get someone else to buy them.

        Either way it limits access and I think that’s good, even if not perfect.

        • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          Imagining a 70 year old hanging around a store for some 80 year old to come by to ask them if they could buy them some cigs.

        • Anamana@feddit.deEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          That’s such a ridiculous and unnecessary scenario. Just make it illegal in 20 years and be done with it. Why put so much money and effort into such a badly designed solution?

          • drekly@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            10 months ago

            Why not right now? Waiting 20 years is such a ridiculous and unnecessary scenario

            • Anamana@feddit.deEnglish
              2·
              10 months ago

              Because people need some time to adapt. Make it 5 if you want. I don’t think we should get rid of a transition phase however.