Rishi Sunak is considering introducing some of the world’s toughest anti-smoking measures that would in effect ban the next generation from ever being able to buy cigarettes, the Guardian has learned.
Whitehall sources said the prime minister was looking at measures similar to those brought in by New Zealand last December. They involved steadily increasing the legal smoking age so tobacco would end up never being sold to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009.
A battery being rechargeable doesn’t inherently make it large, and I’d dispute people’d have a problem carrying around a phone-sized electronic device what’s full of drugs.
I’d also question if we need to discourage any habit whose externalities have been eliminated.
I go on to ponder about a world where all drugs and most vitamins are vaped and people carry a combination vapebric/battery which can be tapped into to power phones, and also connected to one’s shoes to power micromobility heelies and LED lights which have been installed in all shoes.