Creating a new illegal drug market.

Do it. First decision I've heard him make that isn't about making profit for himself.... unless he has invested in vape shops ... ah that makes more sense. Fuck Rishi

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

All these progressively restrictive laws have been good to me. I'm of the generation who remembers smoking on planes, and my grandmother smoking in her hospital bed.

I was probably at two packs a day in the nineties because it was cheap and acceptable.

These days, a pack will last me a week, and I only ever smoke in my backyard at home, in clothing dedicated to the habit that get washed separately from my other clothes.

Bans and social stigma have forced me into near non-smoking without ever consciously trying.

Do I ever have an occasional night of celebratory drinking where I exceed that trend? You betcha, and I don't feel sorry about it. But I'm glad that I'm not the chain smoking beef jerky with a voice three octaves lower than it should be that my grandparents were.

I still believe that people should be able to enjoy vice and that you shouldn't be completely ostracized from society for not living a perfect organic free range fair trade intoxicant free perfectly vegan whatever else life.

But to phase out tobacco as it has been going, I have found that I haven't minded at all in the long term.

(As to the occasional celebratory night, for completely different reasons, I hardly drink anymore. Also was not a conscious choice or effort. It just lost its attraction for me)

About bloody time. Cigarettes are disgusting and do nothing but immense harm to those who smoke them, and those around them.

Sunak is a tosser, but cigarettes are a no brainer. Sure, old boomers still smoke them, but only the dumbest young people still smoke, and most of them use e-cigs (which are still bad, but nowhere remotely near as bad).

Several of my grandparents died before I could ever know them because of smoking, for example. Fuck smoking. Smoking kills.

Tried going cold Turkey today, made it like 14 hours.

It’s the right thing to do. It’s a very hard addiction to escape. I know a guy who beat heroin and can’t beat nicotine.

Smoking is one of the very few things everyone is better off not doing.

Ban alcohol too or it's hypocrisy once again.

Didn't he just say yesterday that he didn't want the government to butt into people's lives? I thought that was why he abandoned all those laws which didn't exist. You know, the meat tax and the 7 bins xD

prohibition still doesn't work

The (stopped?) trend in the US had been to tax cigs to make them unaffordable. Just before the last major hike, my brand was about $5/pack. Now it is $10-12. So glad I quit.

Is that a viable strategy, to continue tax/price hikes?

Good

Thank god. Hope this gets passed. Next do vaping and get rid of it

IMHO they should ban all types of smoking. If people want to eat weed brownies and nicotine chewing gums, I don't care. But smoking just smells bad and is really unpleasant to be around in the street.

Just ban smoking drugs and combustion engine. I just want clean air.

Legalise weed but ban tobacco!

Just saying.