Smoking ban - brilliant news!! 👏

[JessLou80]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/smoking-ban-uk-tobacco-vapes-bill-b2961734.html

Fabulous news about smoking ban for people born after 2008! Hopefully a complete ban for everyone one day - and get rid of those vile vapes!

"They all vape, and there is no mention of vapes being under the same limitations. And vapes will still be here, and kids will still buy them."

On June 1st 2025 disposable vapes were made illegal. On October 1st 2026, a new tax of £2.20 per 10ml of vape liquid.

The new bill will restrict packaging and flavours of vapes, further restrict advertising, etc.

The health complications of vaping aren't coming through fully yet. Once the lung damage is fully understood, it's pretty inevitable that vapes will be further restricted. Nictotine is a poison.

Add some sun beds to the mix and you’ll be grand

No thanks. My grandmother died of skin cancer.

I mean I get that it’s theoretically a good thing but it’s also no an ok law to pass imo. It’s a breach of human rights surely. It sets a bad precedence for restriction of freedoms and human rights. It’s actually pretty messed up.

whoosh right over your head

Indeed. Or not willing bait. I think its obvious where you were going with it.

I don’t think medical evidence does disagree with me - there is loads of evidence on the dangers of vaping

I doubt this ban will have much effect at all.
Kids manage to do a lot of things they aren't technically old enough to do already, including smoking cigarettes, smoking weed, vaping nicotine vapes, vaping THC vapes, use social media when they are under 13, drink energy drinks, watch films underage at home, play games before they are old enough eg: COD, drinking alcohol.
What's going to be different about this?
All that will happen is that it will move to the black market, and aside from the govt receiving no tax at all from this, black market vapes and cigarettes are often made in unregulated factories. This has it's own risks, as well as potentially funding organised crime.
History shows that outright banning products quite often makes that product even more attractive to teenagers because it becomes an ultimate symbol of rebellion.
For these reasons alone, I don't support the ban, because the only difference it will make will not be noticed by your average person.