• @bob_lemon@feddit.de
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    271 year ago

    I mean, Sunak is a complete and utter bellend and cancelling half of HS2 is a ridiculous and nonsensical move.

    But I think that the good old idiom about broken clocks might just apply here. Smoking bans are a good thing.

    • Quatity_Control
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      181 year ago

      Yep, arresting a 47yo for smoking will be very on point for a broken clock.

      Keep in mind, this will be policed only on poor ethnic minorities. Rich white guys in their private club s will still smoke with impunity.

      • @Jaarsh119@lemmy.world
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        71 year ago

        The proposal is to raise the legal smoking age every year. Meaning each yearly increase, this hypothetical 47yo will also age a year and so will be able to smoke forever

        • @Rubanski@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          Not if he wanted to pick up smoking one year before legal age. So he will be chasing that legal age forever and can’t smoke even if he’s 68

          • ////Edit: it seems like I need to give an example to explain this apparently very difficult problem: Person A is 17 , smoking is allowed from 18 Next year Person A is 18, he could under normal circumstances smoke with 18, but now smoking is legal with 19. Continue to age 68 but smoking is now allowed from 69. It’s even implied in the article