Cigarette-buying age set to rise

[shiver]

i'm for it. smoking is disgusting.

[clarissa !!]

i dont care

[Redmoon Evil]

Around my area it wouldn't matter anyway the shops don't really car I can get server for beer any day of week unless they know my parents. And people would just see **** as nothing compared to beer even though **** are worse for you but everyone smokes so the dont see that.

[Herman]

In response to 2, I agree, my dad tried to give up smoking and it gave him stomach ulcers and made him really sick, he is healitheir smoking them. BUT, he only smokes them in the car or in the pool house. Never in public.

Well your father is different. He's one of those people who are considerate smokers. Most smokers just don't care. They smoke wherever they want like nobody's business. Some even blow the smoke into people's faces.

Prehaps not ban smoking altogether, but just ban them in public. The government should make smoke-designed areas for people who do smoke.

[womanizer]

No I'm not for it 'cos I love my nicotine hit. But lucky for me I live in Northern Ireland

[Browney]

They can't just ban it. They need to work it through. Let me explain. Stop smoking alltogether now and people of all ages will be stuck. If they increase the age of legally buying them every few years it will keep less people at a younger age smoking.

[Adam!]

A) Im no chav/emo/goth whatever.
B) It wont work, it's the same as booze - Tell me one person underage that cannot get hold of any?
C) We have a smoking ban coming into place in July that stops us smoking in public places anyway.

But yeah, I don't light up where ever I want.. For example, I wouldn't stand in the middle of London where it's really busy and have a cig.. It's just as easy to move to the side and sit on a wall or whatever and have one!

Most of you don't have a clue what your talking about either.

[---MAD---]

Yeap the higher the better. They should raise the price too so even less can afford it :p.

They only exist simply because of the tax money the goverment makes out of them :rolleyes:.

[omgDAN!]

I say no because:
1. It's not doing any harm as it is.
2. The government are looking for little daft things to change.
3. The government are stupid, couldn't they deal with something more important, like sorting out the NHS, or housing or whatever, instead of doing little stupid things like this.

[GommeInc]

Well your father is different. He's one of those people who are considerate smokers. Most smokers just don't care. They smoke wherever they want like nobody's business. Some even blow the smoke into people's faces.

Prehaps not ban smoking altogether, but just ban them in public. The government should make smoke-designed areas for people who do smoke.

That's more adviseable and thanks for saying my father is different (in the good way). He has told me many time, not to smoke because it will ruin my life etc.

Smoking is doing harm, chavs at the back of my bus are doing harm, randomly smoking because they are cool and think they can get away with it (granted I drive now, so I drive to college). Although you say the government is stupid, they'll be more stupid to ban it as stated somewhere, alot of money comes from the smokers taxes.