[cineticdaffodil]

I think its an attempt to cut back on health system costs, disguised as well meaning measure. Up next alcohol bans. One might not even numb oneself while beeing a slave to the "allways right" generation vampire.

[Pooge]

Alcohol was always an important cultural symbol (drinking wine as a Christian, for example). This is not the case for tobacco, especially highly artificial one.

Tobacco is inherently bad for one's surrounding as well.

[ButlerianJihad]

https://keepitsacred.itcmi.org/tobacco-and-tradition/traditi...

[Pooge]

So my point stands; it's not a cultural symbol like alcohol is for Europeans.

[ButlerianJihad]

Correct, and since the UK has an Established Church, and does not recognise “freedom of religion” as understood in the USA, banning tobacco entirely is reasonable.

Good luck, Canada.

[rorylawless]

Yes, the government has concocted a dastardly conspiracy to cut health system costs by reducing access to a known cause of illness.

[cineticdaffodil]

If only we could impprison them all. Beeing in prison reduces almost all life risks, even that of incarceration.