zephyreks@lemmy.mlM to World News@lemmy.ml • 9 months agoSmoking age should rise from 18, by one year every year - Rishi Sunakexternal-linkmessage-square67 fedilinkarrow-up1172
arrow-up1172external-linkSmoking age should rise from 18, by one year every year - Rishi Sunakzephyreks@lemmy.mlM to World News@lemmy.ml • 9 months agomessage-square67 Commentsfedilink
minus-squareTankiedesantski [he/him]hexbear19·9 months 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. link
minus-squareorcrist@lemm.eehexbear1·9 months 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. linkfedilink
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.