@zephyreks@lemmy.mlM to World News@lemmy.ml • 1 year agoSmoking age should rise from 18, by one year every year - Rishi Sunakwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square200fedilinkarrow-up1412arrow-down136
arrow-up1376arrow-down1external-linkSmoking age should rise from 18, by one year every year - Rishi Sunakwww.bbc.com@zephyreks@lemmy.mlM to World News@lemmy.ml • 1 year agomessage-square200fedilink
minus-squareTankiedesantski [he/him]linkfedilinkEnglish19•1 year agoTaxation is a tool but it also creates inequality where rich people are able to smoke and poor people can’t. That situation risks making tobacco a signifier of wealth - an aspirational good like an expensive handbag.
minus-square@orcrist@lemm.eelinkfedilink1•1 year agoIf rich kids are able to get lung cancer and poor kids are priced out of it, I don’t feel bad for the poor kids.
Taxation is a tool but it also creates inequality where rich people are able to smoke and poor people can’t. That situation risks making tobacco a signifier of wealth - an aspirational good like an expensive handbag.
good, let them smoke and DIE
If rich kids are able to get lung cancer and poor kids are priced out of it, I don’t feel bad for the poor kids.