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

Catalyst2422:

If making an age related law that doesn’t affect you is gross or sleazy here. Why is it not in other contexts?

Because other contexts are different than what’s being discussed. There’s plenty of examples that anyone could come up with in which your question falls apart simply by defining other contexts. The issue is control over people who you disagree with. Isn’t it?