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Originally Posted by Shipping up to Boston
Although I’m not the OP, everything that sets precedent in this country has relevance. Unless your travels are confined to TV proper, it’s important to watch out for this kind of nonsense. It’s like bike lanes where there was once parking spots and travel lanes. Every action has a reaction
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Apparently, it started in New Zealand and the UK is considering a similar law!
In 2022, New Zealand passed a similar law intended to impose a lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes by mandating that tobacco can’t ever be sold to anybody born on or after Jan. 1, 2009. The country’s new prime minister has said he plans to repeal the law.
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last year proposed raising the legal age that people in England can buy cigarettes by one year, every year until it is eventually illegal for the whole population.
C.S. Lewis called these people "omnipotent moral busybodies."
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under
omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
I think there are some people that would even ban ketchup!!