A new law passed in the British Parliament will not allow people born after January 1, 2009 to ever legally buy cigarettes in U.K. NBC News' Raf Sanchez reports on how residents are handling the change.

Lololol

uK be crazy

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/shorts/u-k-passes-smoking-ban-for-those-born-after-2008-261884485722

That's actually kind of interesting. So eventually they just won't sell them at all once all those people die.

Rough day for freedom. I am glad I dont smoke anymore tho.

Rough in the middle east these days.

Agreed, very interesting

I wonder what the reason is, cause you can’t say it’s “bad for you” and continue to sell alcohol..

This post was edited by crosspawz on Apr 24 2026 02:03pm

Kinda secondary to this one.

Yeah the UK is a shithole currently

But the USA isn’t far behind lol

New Zealand did it first, and then the next government scrapped it and reversed the ban.

Obviously it wont stop smoking, but reduced rates overall result in reduced exposure and eventually it just fades away or to a negligible portion of the population.

Yeah but at least we can call it out for being a shithole and that's why we are the best shithole to ever do it