Nigel Farage pledges to repeal ‘idiotic’ smoking ban if Reform wins next election
https://www.joe.co.uk/news/farage-pledges-to-repeal-idiotic-smoking-ban-if-reform-wins-next-election-527039
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Nigel Farage pledges to repeal ‘idiotic’ smoking ban if Reform wins next election
https://www.joe.co.uk/news/farage-pledges-to-repeal-idiotic-smoking-ban-if-reform-wins-next-election-527039
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Reason #658 for not voting Reform.
Priorities. He hates this country so much.
Surely the tobacco industry is not paying this one
Surely, even for reform, that would be stupid. I dont think I have ever met anybody, smoker or not, that would want to change this.
The headline is a bit misleading. This refers only to the ban on sale of tobacco products to those born after 2009 that the tories bought in.
The generational ban model is actually a public-health strategy: instead of banning smoking immediately, it slowly eliminates it by ensuring younger generations never legally start. If it works, smoking rates could drop dramatically over 20–30 years.
It’s actually fascinating how european far right groups have become these big tent parties for all kinds of regarded issues. Almost like someone realised the village idiot demographic forms a big chunk of the electorate that no one else is pursuing.
he probably wants lead back in petrol and the abolition of the drink driving rules too…
We should incentive each patridiot to smoke more.
It almost feels like he’s now realised that Reform has done a bit too well at taking out the Tories and he is in within grasp of the leadership, WHICH HE DOES NOT WANT.
The whole grift of Reform and Farage/Tice etc… is based on taking money to promote their right wing ideology without having to do any actual real politicking, the US based Heritage foundation and their ilk pay these idiots a huge amount via various means to fund their social media, their campaigns, talking tours etc…
They make far more money from this grift than they ever would as just a politician and if either of them had to do the PMs role they would see their income drop by 5 to 10 fold overnight.
This is the not so secret ‘secret’ about Reform and why anyone who actually joins with an intent of making Britain better soon leaves as they realise the leadership does not want power, they just want to coin it in.
Cancers are so in right now.
This man is stuck in the past, it’s embarrassing.
Can you guys pass a law to ban Farage?
Is he going to repeal the idoitic ban on leaded petrol too? Maybe bring back asbestos? If we’re going back in time, let’s get rid of seatbelts too.
This coupled with his ambition to abolish the NHS works out really well for smokers
He’s talking about a planned outright ban on all smoking, rather than repealing indoor and public smoking laws. Honestly, if people are fully aware of the risks and aren’t doing it in a way that can damage other people’s health then an adult should be free to make that choice.
I wonder if he has yellow stains all over his fingers and he probably stinks all the time.
I genuinely think (maybe hope) that Reform are starting to fall victim to their own echo chamber. They spend so much time basking in the adoration of reactive boomers that they forget that most of the country actually likes not having cigarette smoke everywhere.
How many people actually want this?
Cancer is what the UK needs apparently… dunce
Ok, in full fairness to Farage the headline is being pretty misleading here on what he wants to ban. Which, you know, it’s JOE so fair enough, expected.
The headline is implying that he’s looking to remove something like the indoor smoking ban brought in across the 2000s, or maybe the smoking while driving ban from 2013. What he’s *actually* talking about is the “generational smoking ban” policy barring anyone born in 2009 or later from ever buying tobacco products, which was only proposed in 2023 and isn’t law yet.
So it’s technically accurate but much less “back to the 1970s” than the headline implies.
This proposed law does seem a bit stupid. It would be pretty wild 20 years from now if a 37 year old could smoke but a 36 year old couldn’t. Do people really think that’s a good idea?
I smoked for 18 years starting at 12. It’s always been a scourge and it was smoking bans that helped me quit by not having it constantly around me when I went out and stuff.
I’m old enough to remember smoking pubs, wether you smoked or not your clothes stank like shit for days after
No one really smokes anymore in the UK, so this policy is about 20 years out of date….. Much like farage and most MPs now days.
This guy just listens to angry drunk rants at Spoons and adds them to his program
They are really catering to theire demographic. Old angry man, that can’t and wont stop Smoking. Whats next? Banning veggies for real men?
Chaotic evil at it’s finest.
90% of people commenting have only read the headline as usual. This isn’t referring to the smoking ban that most of you think it is referring to.
It’s perhaps time for a faragexit.
The function of the generational smoking ban was to prevent future generations from becoming addicted to cigerrettes in the first place rather than apply pressure onto people who are already addicted and don’t/can’t stop despite the massive health risks.
Farage is essentially advocating for lung cancer and nicotine addiction in future generations, he wants a cigerette in the hands of your children or grandchildren, and no doubt he’s motivated by money rather than liberty.
Farage calling anything “idiotic” sounds like a ringing endorsement to me.
God, he is such a stupid odious little toad.
This is pure trumpolitoco – randomly promise stuff to grab headlines, and you can bet he will gaslight us later claiming he never promised any such thing.
🤮
Reform more like regress.
The Uk can see what Trump is doing and Farage promises to be like him. Surely Farage shouldn’t stand a chance if the Brits have any decency and brains left.
I honestly agree with him here. I thought we were on a road to decriminalising drugs rather than criminalsing? Smoking is already through the floor. This to me is just nanny state stuff
How to kill off the hospitality industry even more eh?
Next: “Farage swears to bring back unpasteurised milk, underage drinking and re-introducing rabies into the country, because why improve our lives when you can just kill the people faster?”
I swear down he is saying these things to make sure he doesn’t become Prime Minister, he loves being an MP, but winning the election will kill his easy ride.
Things like this, removal of workers rights, calling gun controls ludicrous and laughing at the father of a Dunblane victim all make me think he wants to stay a minority party.
Farage is a cunt, pure and simple
“How is the ban meant to work? Ten years from now, a 27-year-old will not be legally able to buy cigarettes, but a 28-year-old will be able to”, Farage wrote.
Yeah and he’s 100% right about this. Anyone with half a brain should understand what the real life implications of this will be, a significant black market selling tobacco for a premium.
With all of our anti-drug legislation we can’t keep drugs off the streets, how are we supposed to stop young people buying cigarettes when they’re perfectly legal for thr majority of the population.
I can’t stand Farage or Reform but the generational smoking ban is a stupid piece of legislation that I would absolutely support repealing.
Pubs and restaurants are dying on their arse already and young people don’t smoke. What could possibly go wrong.
“By 2020, smoking was reported to have contributed to 22.3% of worldwide deaths annually due to excessive tobacco use [1].”
A good reason to quit. Of course it is difficult to do and it will even be a different matter from person to person. 99% of the time I do not miss it, thankfully.
What kind of mentally challenged individual would choose to expose themselves to a known carconigen just because 1 in 20 might still do it.
What an idiot.
Anyone remember the Simpsons “More Asbestos! More Asbestos!” Campaign pledges?
This guy is a fucking moron