i dont understand how his would be enforced as 16 and 17 can smoke legally untill october 1st this year ! so when the law is enforced do they just have to stop?
2007-01-01 07:29:01 · 23 answers · asked by Autumns_Coma 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
tough ****.
its easier to stop while they are still young. much better for their health.
2007-01-01 07:32:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
You are mistaking 1 law for something else.
The 'smoking age' is not the age that someone can smoke.
It is the age that someone can BUY cigarettes.
And as for enforcing, it will be the same as now but the ID produced must show 18 years of age instead of 16.
Police MAY have the powers to confiscate cigarettes found on the anti social buggers that smoke that are under 18, after all we wouldn't want the police to actually go and apprehend criminals would we?
So persecute the young smokers as we all are aware that driving whilst smoking kills thousands of people, and drink-driving is just a bit silly!
In case you missed it - that was sarcasm.
I found it rather droll!
2007-01-01 15:38:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
When the age of smoking is raised to 18 in October 2007, anyone under the age of 18 will be breaking the law if they continue to smoke.
2007-01-02 03:37:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They will do as youngsters have always done: by going into a shop and brazening it out while purchasing cigarettes, telling lies about their age; or by getting older people to purchase cigarettes on their behalf.
I am waiting to see whether some left wing lawyer or other is prepared to take the matter before the Court of Human Rights, arguing that the human rights of 16 and 17 year old tobacco addicts have been interfered with by introducing this legislation!
2007-01-02 11:13:06 · answer #4 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Please! Legal smoking age in the states has been 18 for a long time but that has not stopped thousands of teens from smoking pre-maturely. There will always be people willing to get these teens cigarettes, and there will always be a clerk willing to break the law and sell them directly to the minors.
2007-01-01 15:35:54 · answer #5 · answered by janfitc 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
OMG! Good point!
The UK prisons are full already!
Let's face it, the current age limit is not really enforced properly, except at the point of sale and that is how the government hopes it will be effective.
2007-01-01 15:38:43 · answer #6 · answered by Great Eskape 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They'll probably still be able to buy cigs unless they're asked for ID. Like a lot of these age limits the new law is probably intended to stop older looking 14 year olds getting hooked.
2007-01-02 07:22:12 · answer #7 · answered by mickyrisk 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, ban everything. Look how well as a society we've done since the sixties when this nanny culture took hold. Women and children can now walk around outside at any hour day or night carefree in the knowledge that no one will harm them, the murder rate has been reduced to almost zero, people are so much friendlier to each other. Thanks successive governments for banning everything, we're so much happier now.
2007-01-01 17:21:21 · answer #8 · answered by A True Gentleman 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is my understanding that the legal age to smoke is unchanged, probably for the very reason you state. I think you will find that the ban is on under 18's buying cigarettes.
So you can smoke...but you can't buy them.
Isn't our government wonderful?
2007-01-01 15:34:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
they dont have to stop no, but the law specifies that shops etc cannot sell tobacco etc to those under the age of 18. as with alcohol you can still drink it under the age of 18, but its illegal for the place it is sold from to do so. so yes, they can smoke, but its illegal for the shops to
2007-01-01 15:32:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
they will find a way, im 17 and my mates smoke... i know they are determined and will find away... its the same with alcohol... people under 16 still manage to get served or somehow get alcohol so it aint going to change that much i dont think
2007-01-01 17:39:47 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋