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Re:Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by sir0010010 on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @11:44AM (#47850420)
Taking away smoking still solves the secondhand smoke issue.
Re:Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by ErroneousBosh on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @01:42PM (#47851974)
Not the second-hand vape issue though.

Those of us who don't smoke or vape can smell that shit a couple of hundred metres away.

Re:Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by butlike on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @04:00PM (#47853774)
Those of us who don't drive can smell the exhaust a couple hundred meters away, too.
Re:Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by ErroneousBosh on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @02:55AM (#47860005)
Sounds like you're using the wrong fuel. If we'd switched all the petrol cars over to propane instead of having "scrappage schemes" to sell people new "cleaner greener diesels" - and you see how that worked out - then we'd have pristine fresh air in our cities now.

But that doesn't sell nearly enough debt.

Re:Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by ImPostingOnHN on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @07:48PM (#47856485)
You should have smelled the bathroom here an hour ago. They ought to ban chipotle for the same reason. Secondhand chipotle is the worst.
Re:Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by ErroneousBosh on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @06:10AM (#47861393)
> chipotle

Have you considered just eating food?

Re:Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by ImPostingOnHN on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @08:55AM (#47862891)
Has everybody in the world considered just not vaping?

Like secondhand vapor, we can't control other people's secondhand chipotle unless we ban chipotle.

And since I don't like the smell, we've got to ban both.

Re:Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by AngryData on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @01:31AM (#47859460)
Secondhand smoke is such a small effect with current levels of smoking and smoking laws that it is hard to even discern data about it.
Re:Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by sir0010010 on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @06:27AM (#47861508)
Citation needed
Re:Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by hadlock on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @08:10AM (#47862449)
Second hand smoke is a large (almost overwhelming) factor in SIDS. Also for people who don't smoke, it smells f--king disgusting. Nobody wants to deal with that in their life.