Measures to stop children from vaping could be included in forthcoming tobacco and vapes bill
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20241005081705/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/04/vaping-to-be-banned-outside-schools-and-hospitals
I smoked 3 packs a day for 25 years, then I vaped for 11, then I quit vaping 3 years ago.
Is vaping good? Of course not. Putting nothing other than air in your lungs is the best course of action. But it’s 10 times better than smoking, and it really does help you get off the stinkies once and for all.
I would not have been able to quit smoking without vaping. I’m totally convinced vaping saved my life.
This proven, effective smoking cessation method is more and more denied to smokers who, like me, needed the help badly. Vaping was a real step forward in the fight against tobacco, and now we’re right back to where we started. Clearly nobody cares about helping those who are addicted to tobacco.
And I guess we have the pharma industry and the tobacco industry to thank for that: vaping cut into their bottom lines badly and they finally managed to kill it off for good so they could keep selling cigarettes (or tobacco-industry-made vapes) and crappy ineffective nicotine patches forever, as all vapers accurately predicted would happen years ago.
Shame on our corrupt powers that be.
Yup, all to the cheer of ignorant masses who either falsely claim vaping is more or equally harmful to smoking, fearmonger with their “think of the children” shit about unproven negative effects despite none being found still, or simply want to ban everything they don’t like - which is a sentiment especially common I’m Britain.
Another day in no-fun-allowed Britain. We’ve got real problems and what does the gov’t do?
Ban vapes
Ban big pints
Ban sugary sweets
Ban filling ready meals
Ban caffeine in drinks
Ban meal deals
Ban having savings (raise taxes on the poor)
Ban being disabled (cut their benefits)
Ban the transes (ban their lifesaving care and Ban being nice to them at school)
Ban toppling statues of racist cunts
Ban speaking out against genocide (and fund it)
Yawn. Country’s still going into the gutter. They’ll do anything but make it livable in this shithole.
Ban caffeine in drinks? Like added caffeine? I’m assuming you can still get coffee but you can’t buy a Monster or a Red Bull or something? Is it over a certain limit, so sodas and stuff are ok or still no? Why not ban sugar in soda before caffeine in soda? I have so many questions.
They haven’t banned it, like most of these they are all ideas floated by our government, usually at a time of financial ruin or scandals to sway the national conversation towards manufactured outrage.
The ready meal (microwave dinner in US English) and meal deal (common UK grocery store deal on a drink, snack and sandwich aimed at picnickers and office workers out for a quick lunch) is the most recent of these: https://www.grocerygazette.co.uk/2023/07/28/mps-supermarket-meal-deal/
At the same time malnutrition in children is at record highs and the average height (commonly accepted as sign of economic prosperity: see S.Korea vs N.Korea) of Britons has decreased directly due to blatant cronyism and economic mismanagement through austerity measures informed by a literal typo in excel.
In the case with caffeine, this resulted in a voluntary ban of it for under-16s by the supermarkets, which is often thought to be a law but actually isn’t.
I think it is understandable though it does make it an absolute pain to purchase energy drinks because you have to be ID’d for it, store workers often don’t understand what an energy drink is because they apparently all arrived in the country yesterday, and their home country has no concept of soft drinks, or they don’t speak English, so they’re either confused by it, or they assume it is alcohol, so do the full check, even on someone who doesn’t look a day over 50.
Sorry to necro this but I wanted to thank you for your comprehensive answer to my question. It’s always fascinating to learn about this sort of weird slice of life stuff from other cultures.
Just to clarify, the cook-at-home meals they’re talking about in the article you linked are microwave meals? In the US we have some smaller grocer chains that have cook-at-home kits but they’re more like the Hello Fresh type kits. Instead of being mailed out after being packaged up in a factory or something, they’re packaged up in store so you get a package with meat from the butcher counter in store, the same asparagus at whatever the fuck as you’d get from the produce section there in store, etc. All the spices and shit you need are packaged up for you in the quantity you need, then you just steam and sauté that shit up and you have a meal in like 20 minutes without having to do any prep or anything.
Obviously we also have microwave meals in abundance.
Wow, that’s a broad ban. Most of England is outside schools and hospitals.
Fat lot of good that will do… Last time I was near a UK hospital (Lincoln) the entrance was crowded with smokers. Right underneath the “no smoking” signs. There wasn’t even anyone vaping
Good luck with that. After all it worked so well with cigarettes.