@zephyreks@lemmy.mlM to World News@lemmy.ml • 2 years agoSmoking age should rise from 18, by one year every year - Rishi Sunakwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square248fedilinkarrow-up1433
arrow-up1433external-linkSmoking age should rise from 18, by one year every year - Rishi Sunakwww.bbc.com@zephyreks@lemmy.mlM to World News@lemmy.ml • 2 years agomessage-square248fedilink
minus-squareTankiedesantski [he/him]linkfedilinkEnglish19•2 years 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, she/her]linkfedilinkEnglish11•2 years agogood, let them smoke and DIE
minus-square@orcrist@lemm.eelinkfedilink1•2 years 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.