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UK Prime Minister to create ‘smokefree generation’ by ending cigarette sales to those born on or after 1 January 2009 (www.gov.uk)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by activistPnk to c/anticonsumption

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I think it was the prime minister (or spokesperson) who made this very clever argument: (paraphrasing) “we are not taking away choice… cigarettes are designed to inherently take away your choice by trapping you in an addiction.”

I’m not picking sides here, just pointing out a great piece of rhetoric to spin the policy as taking away something that takes away your choice. Effectively putting forward the idea that you don’t have choice to begin with.

(sorry to say this rhetoric was not mentioned in the linked article; I just heard it on BBC World Service)

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[–] symthetics@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

But no vaping ban?

The cynic in me says this is to test the water to see how pliable we are. What else will follow if we accept this, I wonder?

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