Raising the smoking age to 21 instead of one year every year

The minimum smoking age might as well be raised to 21 without any loss of liberty for the people of a nation. People aged from 18 to 21 years old usually find what they will do for a living after finishing school. They take up their aim in life, which cannot be to smoke and take advantage of that freedom or any other form of freedom, which encourages people to become criminals which happens when taking advantage of one’s freedom.

Between 18 and 21 years of age young people decide whether to go to university or what else to do, if that would not be starting to smoke which had to wait until they become 21, then those who don’t really need to smoke but could vape instead for example would not smoke. That is what the anti-smoking activists want to get out of their anti-smoking campaign. But what they actually do is different and much worse by promoting the generational smoking ban in England. With that they intend to eliminate smoking and extort the whole custom instead of effectively controlling the smoking rate by raising the age limit to 21 and balancing the minimisation of the smoking rate against the needs of society and its members which ultimately means the individual needs of each person.

Anti-smoking activists’ objectives will have been fulfilled by raising the smoking age to 21 to control who smokes to what is necessary and avoid more people than needed to be smoking. They don’t have to kill smoking completely with a generational tobacco ban like they are supporting and they are guilty of. What they are interested in is balancing the smoking rate according to the needs of society and its members against its minimisation. So they should raise the smoking age to 21 in the UK instead of pursuing the enforcement of a generational smoking ban. They should do that instead of being fanatic and wanting to eliminate smoking from the face of the Earth through extortion, because the other half of the map consists of America where smoking belongs.

If you get my point, raising the age limit to 21 would ensure that only those who needed to smoke would smoke, and the rest wouldn’t. That is the solution of striking the correct balance for the fanaticism expressed against smoking by anti-smoking proponents and what they propose.

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