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For children's health?!? Should've been banned years ago for the planet's health 😡
If you ban it to save the children, you have the conservatives on your side.
If you ban it to save the planet, it becomes a leftist issue and people will resist the "wokeness".
Real conservatives, not proto-fascist populists or extreme neo liberals, would want to conserve the environment because they'd be interested in keeping the tradition of clean air and growing traditional crops. We see some of this in Teal movements (green/blue).
So weird they are apparently doing it for the children. Maybe it's for a bigger impact or something, but it seems questionable as it was always about the environment with disposable vapes.
It may be two pronged.
"For the children" is a classic "you sure you want to block this legislation, mate?" move.
And the big tabacco companies have been rapidly pivoting to target vaping at children (to set up lifetime consumers), since we've made amazing headway reducing smoking.
Yeah there is definitely a problem with big tobacco taking advantage of children. This looks like a proper legislation that I stand for. However, it's hard to not be skeptical as "for the children" is usually for malicious intents.
Sometimes you have to play the game to win, even if the game is not something you want in the first place.
Disposable vapes are such nonsense, loads of single use plastic, sold freely all over, not even that cheap considering the use, and nobody puts them in the bin! They're just all over the floor everywhere.
They should be but in the bin. Because of the battery. In the UK many supermarkets and local authorities will dispose of them for free, so there still no excuse.
You forgot about “n’t”.
Finally the Tories do something useful
Welcome to election year.
There's 1hr 20 minutes of video there. Is there a written article or transcription anywhere? Or a summary?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The latest changes would also introduce powers to stop refillable vapes being sold in a flavour marketed at children and to require that they be produced in plainer, less appealing packaging.
To help stop underage sales, additional fines will be brought in for any shops in England and Wales caught selling vapes illegally to children.
The announcement follows an initial consultation launched late last year by the UK government and devolved administrations to gauge public attitudes to measures being proposed to reduce levels of smoking and vaping.
Deborah Arnott, chief executive of Ash, said that the "government's strategy is the right one: stop smoking initiation, support smokers to quit..., while protecting children by curbing youth vaping".
Dr Camilla Kingdon, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said the organisation was "thrilled to see the government take the first necessary steps to create a smoke-free generation".
Trading Standards officers also say more resources are needed to help crack down on rogue retailers, and it may take some time and a different range of policies to stop vapes with damaging illegal content coming into the UK and reaching children.
The original article contains 1,034 words, the summary contains 190 words. Saved 82%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
vaping was introduced by, spread by, and popularised among the youths by the acts of the government and the people behind the government, it is not enough to merely suggest that their acts now justify anything, they wish to ruin the youths and create a useless generation
That noise you can hear in the background is organised crime celebrating. Again.
For the chicken ™️
What a typo. I'm not charging it .
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