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

Catalyst2422: > Are your two statements not contradictory? Why is a certain age ok. But a certain date isn’t When a certain age is quoted you can expect there is an age related justification. In this case there is no justification, it’s just a government flex, another test of our compliance. A particularly sleazy aspect is that noone who’s proposing or voting on the law is ever going to be affected by it. Let’s make a law that our kids have to follow and we don’t. Gross.