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  "path": "/t/uk-plans-to-pass-law-banning-anyone-born-after-2008-to-buy-cigarettes/37301?page=7#post_127",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-25T01:33:37.000Z",
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  "textContent": "lyricism:\n\n> The crime under this law will be **selling** cigarettes to someone born after 2008. Even if someone in that demographic manages to purchase one, they are not the criminal,\n\nYou’re being short sighted. This is exactly the sort of ultra strict logic that has eroded literally all of the expected protections from governments that many people have experienced and the exact logic that we have all engaged in that allowed it to happen. The idea that taking away people’s freedom is not heading in a bad direction is why communities like this exist. Privacy has become a profitable market for some, and it shouldn’t have ever been that way. We have to think about it because too many of us thought that strictly speaking this or that or whatever the dialogue was. You’re rationalization of micromanaging others is justification along the same lines, that you don’t mind, and that’s what’s important. It was never illegal for me to buy them when I was 12 or as I got older, but holy fuck did I hate the haters and didn’t like being reprimanded, and now the UK is being even more restrictive. Sound familiar? The direction being taken here, little by little?\n\nlyricism:\n\n> Thank you for confirming you didn’t even read the article or familiarize yourself with the law being discussed.\n\nAnd you’re being arrogant too.\n\nlyricism:\n\n> This is a restriction on individual activity to prevent the seller from harming the buyer’s health.\n\nHow rationally noble, and unrealistically arrogant to say (again).",
  "title": "UK plans to pass law banning anyone born after 2008 to buy cigarettes"
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