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

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[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 83 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Smoking age is specifically the ability to purchase. There are no criminal/civil charges for underage smoking. The crimes are specifically 1) selling to minors 2) buying for minors.

TL;DR: No one goes/will go to jail for underage smoking. They won’t even get in trouble for buying. The onus is on the vendor OR the legal purchaser who handed them off.

[-] Melkath@kbin.social 31 points 2 years ago

Incorrect.

A black market is created, kids still smoke, but poor people making a buck selling to kids go to jail.

It doesn't fix the issue and syphons poor people into prisons.

[-] zephyreks@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

How do you propose this black market gets created? In theory, no new addicts would get created because the smoking age rises in lockstep with the people themselves.

[-] Neve8028@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

Yes, because no one has ever smoked before they reached the legal age.

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 years ago

They should raise the heroin age

[-] Melkath@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

Are you fucking with me right now?

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

There is already a black/gray marked near many schools (for the younger, there are cigarettes and for the older there is weed.) it’s a market where there is just one person selling, it is more a fluid market where the young people sell and buy to each other, mostly there are multiple kids with connections to get the goods in any school and then it rotates through the different kids by selling, buying, stealing etc. Source: I’m 26 now, and don’t believe that has changed since I left school.