UK plans to pass law banning anyone born after 2008 to buy or smoke cigarettes

Human alcohol production and consumption is literally older than cuneiform by at least 10,000 years. It is much more fundamental to our society than cigarettes, which only really took off less than 100 years ago, ever were. People forget that cigarettes are really, really new. There are people alive today who were born before actual inhalation of the smoke was a thing. Your great great great grandparents did not smoke cigarettes. They did drink alcohol. As the US learned, you just can’t ban alcohol, for better or worse.