You are very right, I couldn’t agree more. What a disgrace to condemn the people of Britain, young people and those who have not yet been born, to anything of the like. Not being entitled to buy tobacco until you die was what was happening exactly when you were growing up and it should not accompany you until you die, because no one wants to die anyway. It is a form of condemnation of the people and the young people of our country which should not take place and not even be discussed either. What should happen instead is the age requirement to buy tobacco can be increased by a constant to 21, and it should be a constant anyway, and this should be discussed instead, because the purpose of its existence is to prevent and deter underage smoking and punish the sale of tobacco to young teenagers and children, which is what it is expected to do, and should be kept to remain the same way.
The reason there is an age requirement to buy tobacco is to prevent and deter young teenagers and children from underage smoking and punish the exchange of money for tobacco for them and not for anyone else or the rest. This is what should be happening and continue to happen. Not taking advantage of the existence of the law to serve an external purpose of eliminating smoking from the general population to serve and defend everyone’s health, by turning the power that was entrusted to our elected representatives in the form of its abuse against those who elected them and using it against them and their wishes for their punishment for innocent actions that underlie no guilt.
A teenager who has just turned 18 or other person turned 21 is fully entitled within his own rights to buy tobacco whether such a law has been voted or not and what’s more, doing so is not guilty for them to do but innocent to carry out, so what is being punished by the proposed legislation? Nothing at all! Just like nothing is being punished when somebody smokes inside buildings as his action is innocent and not guilty of anything or responsible for the same thing, and if tobacco circulated in decorated packets with commercial logos and signs printed on the wrapper, that would not be guilty but innocent to do as well.
Those who are in control of what the law says should assume their responsible position and realise that the punishment of the law exists exclusively to prevent crime and other wrongdoing. Not to put them in control of the rest, and make them control the way that society behaves, because society has its own rules, which have become the law, and anything must not be the law or get punished by it if it is not first a social rule that binds all of our social relationships. That is why the state should not legislate in the absence of society, and the smoking ban and all counter-smoking legislation have not been decided upon by society nor have they been voted with the consent of its members, and the majority of the parliament does not identify with the real majority of everyone, which can be estimated more accurately by polls.
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