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  "path": "/t/uk-plans-to-pass-law-banning-anyone-born-after-2008-to-buy-or-smoke-cigarettes/37301?page=3#post_48",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-22T06:39:34.000Z",
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    "I think informed doctors would tell their patients otherwise."
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  "textContent": "lyricism:\n\n> Again, not really to the person born in 2008 who will still be able to easily poison themselves with cigarettes.\n\nYes. My question is, is it fair to the people born in 2009? The People born in 2008 will forever have the right to buy and smoke cigarettes but not people born in 2009 and later.\n\nlyricism:\n\n> Ehh, I don’t think any doctor will tell you you will suffer any consequences directly attributable to alcohol if you have a beer with friends every once in a while.\n\nAny doctor who tells you that moderate alcohol consumption has no negative consequences is either misinformed, or lying. People have a hard time accepting new scientific evidence that shifts a commonly accepted paradigm. That includes doctors. I think informed doctors would tell their patients otherwise.\n\nlyricism:\n\n> I think this will encourage them to quit at a young age, which is a good thing. I\n\nI hope you are right. A lot of smokers who are minors tend to come from a family of smokers.\nI also hope the law applies to vaping, otherwise it is less likely to work. Some of my smoker friends have used vaping as a way to quit cigarettes, and it worked. They don’t smoke cigarettes anymore, but they do vape which is still bad. Also vaping has become popular with a lot of young people who don’t smoke tobacco and never have.\n\nGopher:\n\n> Tbh I would be fine with these nanny state sort of laws if we got something from it in return.\n\nIt’s very likely that we would get something in return. But society often doesn’t appreciate what they get in return from policies like this unless it’s something tangible that they can touch and see, which sucks.",
  "title": "UK plans to pass law banning anyone born after 2008 to buy or smoke cigarettes"
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