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Smoking age should rise from 18, by one year every year - Rishi Sunak (www.bbc.com)

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[-] artaxthehappyhorse@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Sure are a lot of authoritarian apologists up in here today

[-] RonPaulyShore@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Authoritarianism is when tobacco companies can't shove cigarettes down my kids neck.

[-] artaxthehappyhorse@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It's not shoving down their neck if they're educated about the danger and choose to do it anyway. That's called free will. Your job isn't to sculpt or control your kids (bc that doesn't ever work), your job is just to show them the ropes and hope they don't fall down too much/too badly.

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[-] artaxthehappyhorse@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Because people have been more and more conditioned to obey year after year. To be absolute pushovers who never fight against the grain, never question groupthink, etc. Grandfathering the criminalization (using violent enforcement) of something like smoking a cigarette is a shining example of what's to come.

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