In what might be one of the smartest things a government has ever done, smoking could banned in Britain for anyone born after 2000…
On Tuesday, British doctors voted to ban cigarettes for anyone born after the year 2000. The motion passed at the British Medical Association’s annual representatives meeting, and will soon lead to the doctors’ union lobbying the government to introduce the ban on kids currently 14 years or older.
Tim Crocker-Buque, a specialist registrar in public health medicine who first proposed the ban, said,
“Smoking is not a rational, informed choice of adulthood. Eighty percent of smokers start as teenagers as a result of intense peer pressure. Smokers who start smoking at age 15 are three times as likely to die of smoking-related cancer as someone who starts in their mid-20s.”
He continued,
“It is not expected that this policy will instantly prevent all people from smoking, but [rather it will] de-normalize cigarette smoking. The level of harm caused by smoking is unconscionable.”
This vote is the first step in an initiative to make Britain completely free of tobacco within the next 20 years. First Britain, then THE WORLD!
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