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

lyricism:

There are people alive today who were born before actual inhalation of the smoke was a thing.

Absolutely demonstratively false. Humans have been inhaling weird stuff for a while.

en.wikipedia.org

History of smoking

The history of smoking dates back to as early as 5000 BC in the Americas in shamanistic rituals. With the arrival of the Europeans in the 16th century, the consumption, cultivation, and trading of tobacco quickly spread. The modernization of farming equipment and manufacturing increased the availability of cigarettes following the reconstruction era in the United States. Mass production quickly expanded the scope of consumption, which grew until the scientific controversies of the 1960s, and co...