OT: The News Thread
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Wayward DP
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oh man I saw soooo many people doing this in Hali lol.
lecoqsportif
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Well that’s just called “Monday”.
worm
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You should have come over and said hi
axlsalinger
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Damn. Haven't seen Ruby Wax in forever.
zeke
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hockeylover
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That's really devastating.
LeafGm
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Sounds like once again, someone with an existing mental illness stumbled into incel groups online, and people died as a result.
Just waiting for Jordan Peterson to chime in to argue that this is society’s fault for not forcing unmarried women into monogamous relationships with incels.
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axlsalinger
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So the UK is going to ban smoking for anyone born after 2009. I applaud the goal of creating a smoke free generation but I question the hubris involved in thinking that this will be in any way enforceable.
The UK does have a problem here. Like drinking, smoking is embedded in British culture and among the working class (that's what they call people who used to work in industries that no longer exist like coal mining and shipbuilding but who have now spent the better part of a half century on the dole) they pretty much smoke for a living. There's no way young people growing up on council estates aren't going to smoke. In fact, on some estates, smoking is the least dangerous thing they consume.
It's well intentioned (the UK health service spends close to $30 billion Canadian on smoking-related illness through the National Health Service) but impractical if not impossible to enforce. They'll hand out a lot of fines for selling ciggies to underage kids, but they won't actually prevent any kids from smoking.
www.google.com
The UK does have a problem here. Like drinking, smoking is embedded in British culture and among the working class (that's what they call people who used to work in industries that no longer exist like coal mining and shipbuilding but who have now spent the better part of a half century on the dole) they pretty much smoke for a living. There's no way young people growing up on council estates aren't going to smoke. In fact, on some estates, smoking is the least dangerous thing they consume.
It's well intentioned (the UK health service spends close to $30 billion Canadian on smoking-related illness through the National Health Service) but impractical if not impossible to enforce. They'll hand out a lot of fines for selling ciggies to underage kids, but they won't actually prevent any kids from smoking.
What is the UK smoking ban, how will it work and when will it start?
The government wants to stop people smoking by raising the legal age limit for buying cigarettes.
www.google.com