Two smoking questions...?
In October, I believe, the legal age for buying tobacco will be increased from 16 to 18 (UK).
Q1. How will 16 & 17 year old smokers buy their 'fix' ? and
Q2. If the legal age for smoking is similarly raised to 18, how will the government enforce those caught in the age gap to give up smoking?
Answer:
Silly isn't it. But the anti-smoking lobby say jump and the Government simply asks "and how high would you like it"
You must bear in mind Government plans to raise the school leaving age to 18. If the legal age for buying tobacco goods is not raised in line then the local education departments will have the problem of installing smoking shelters at senior schools. Then come repercussions from parents sueing the schools because little johnny had to stand outside to have his woodbine & he got hypothermia and they want compensation.
Then of course there's the non-smoking brigade taking their kids out of the school due to passive smoking when they walk past the shelters and sueing for putting their child's life at risk . See what I mean just a total clusterfek
It's all pieces that fit into the bigger jigsaw - but we lesser mortals just don't understand that so the Government has to take us by the hand and show the way.
My favourite tale on a similar note was the young 19 year old, in uniform, fresh from his first tour in Iraq who went into the local supermarket for a tube of superglue for his kit (stops cuts bleeding almost instantly) and was refused by the staff because he wasn't 21. He had to go back and get my son to escort him back to the store and buy it for him. How feckin pathetic is that!!
There is no minimum age for smoking. It's just that people under 16 can't buy tobacco and it's illegal to buy tobacco for someone under 16. If a 14 year old were to grow his own tobacco and smoke it, that would be legal. The new law will simply raise the 16 to 18. We might find a lot of 16 & 17 year olds consulting the gardening section of Y!A.
in my country theres no legal age to buy tobacco .. even a 7 year old can buy it
I dare say there's not a lot they can do, other than try and prosecute the retailer that sold them, and that going to be impossible to prove, anyway when i pass my local Senior school at 3 30pm, there are loads of kids puffing away, and they are not even in the 6th form, can you imagine the police trying to apprehend all these kids at one time, i think it will look like a scene from one of St Trinians films !!
Firstly 16 and 17 year olds will do as they have always done and ask an older person to buy their cigarettes. Secondly it is impossible for the government to enforce every single tobacco outlet in the country.
I'm not sure how hard laws are enforced in England but in Denmark-...the legal drinking age is 16 and many supermarkets have sold alcohol to Teen's as young as 13 and they still maintain their license.. enforcement ...does that exist in EUROPE ?
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