zephyreks@lemmy.mlM to World News@lemmy.ml · 10 months agoSmoking age should rise from 18, by one year every year - Rishi Sunakwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square249fedilinkarrow-up1430arrow-down136
arrow-up1394arrow-down1external-linkSmoking age should rise from 18, by one year every year - Rishi Sunakwww.bbc.comzephyreks@lemmy.mlM to World News@lemmy.ml · 10 months agomessage-square249fedilink
minus-squareTankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·10 months 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-squareAOCapitulator [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·10 months agogood, let them smoke and DIE
minus-squareorcrist@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months 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.