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Re:Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by jasomill on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @04:00PM (#47853780)
If future generations want to smoke, they can change the law as easily as yours passed it.

Running government budgets further and further into deficit, believing that, as a result, your children will, some day, be in a stronger financial position to repay the resulting debt that, until that day, continues to grow at an ever-increasing rate?

That seems psychopathic.

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Re:Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by nslsm on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @04:58PM (#47854430)
Given the population pyramid, it would be impossible for them to change the law until they are well into old age.
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Re:Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by pocksuppet on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @07:14PM (#47856074)
You both have good points.
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Re:Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by catcowcostume on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @10:51PM (#47858262)
That's not how politics works, and you probably know it. "Easily passing laws" is not a matter of voting demographics but of political power, and any thinking person knows political power usually does not belong to younger voters.
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