How to solve the Smoking problem??.

[mjk45]

Norris2k said:

mjk45 said:
Recently we had a visiting US professor who talked about how over the cause of time smoking rates in western society has gone down ,and this has made the tobacco companies focus more and more on young smokers with young women being the largest group taking up the habit , his response to this was to break the cycle by setting a date like say 2020 and making it illegal for anyone not of legal smoking age before that date ,the people who are smokers aren't affected but has they give up or die they aren't being replaced .

I agree smoking is bad, but I'm always overwhelmed at how some people let themselves think about the most radical and incredible ideas when it comes to make people stop smoking. I mean, a discrimination for adults based on the year of birth ? It would not be by far the most terrible thing, but I believe that's a first... I've never heard about an equivalent law anywhere at any point of time on Earth.

When you think about it  there are plenty of laws that are based on your date of birth , where I come from 18 is the legal  drinking age in certain US states it's 21. 

What this is doing is saying from a point in time smoking is banned but those legal smokers before that date wont be affected , this has been done before when laws are enacted with provisions for those affected by said laws to be exempted.