Rishi Sunak is considering introducing some of the world’s toughest anti-smoking measures that would in effect ban the next generation from ever being able to buy cigarettes, the Guardian has learned.

Whitehall sources said the prime minister was looking at measures similar to those brought in by New Zealand last December. They involved steadily increasing the legal smoking age so tobacco would end up never being sold to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009.

  • @[email protected]
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    581 year ago

    If they want to ban tobacco let them first legalise weed, acid, and psylocybin. That’d be a fair trade.

      • @LufyCZ
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        51 year ago

        Legitimate medical uses, at least for fent and oxy

        • @Squizzy
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          41 year ago

          Cocaine can be used in dentistry in a gel if you have certain allergies

          • @Death_Equity
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            31 year ago

            The derivates of the cocaine extracted from the coca leaves imported by Coca Cola are used in a variety of ways; from dentistry to eye surgery.

            • @Squizzy
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              21 year ago

              This seems like an American thing. We don’t need to a soft drink company to import medical supplies or materials. But I didn’t know it was used in eye surgery, I’m interested in learning more about that.

              • @Death_Equity
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                11 year ago

                It is a very American story.

                Coca Cola uses coca leaves for the flavor. The government banned cocaine because of racism. Coca Cola had to remove the cocaine because of capitalism and made an arrangement with the government instead of going out of business thanks to corruption.

              • @[email protected]
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                11 year ago

                It’s a global thing. Everyone repurposes side products of a process. Coca-Cola isn’t allowed to have cocaine in the final product so it is extracted out and sold. (Coca-Cola doesn’t actually do this their coca leaf supplier Stepan Company does).