Source: spiked
by Roby Lyons
“Smoking rates have been falling steadily for decades, with or without government intervention, and in the past 15 years a significant factor has been smokers switching voluntarily to reduced-risk products such as vapes and, more recently, nicotine pouches. Despite that, successive governments (Conservative and now Labour) are determined to hasten a ‘smoke-free’ society by banning the sale of tobacco to future generations of adults. … This may be creeping prohibition, but it is prohibition nonetheless. Banning future generations of adults from purchasing tobacco is an astonishing example of the ‘government knows best’ mentality.” (11/04/25)