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Smoking age should rise from 18, by one year every year - Rishi Sunak
  • lol yeah I respect inexistent 'god given rights' the same amount as I respect the rights bestowed upon me by the school of Hogwarts.

    Good try passing off your personal religious beliefs as universal truths though.

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    Smoking age should rise from 18, by one year every year - Rishi Sunak
  • Maybe you're not quite clear on what a right is - its generally something that that's enshrined in constitutional law like for example in a human rights act, or for some advanced democracies even the right to privacy is included in a bill of rights. The 'right to smoke and be unhealthy' is not a right at all, its a freedom that you may have.

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    Smoking age should rise from 18, by one year every year - Rishi Sunak
  • Oh but it just isn't. Tobacco is a controlled substance in pretty much every country in the world. Now you may disagree as to where this government is being too restrictive and that's fine, but it doesn't mean you have any inherent rights to consume tobacco. The same way you don't have a right to consume heroine or meth.

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    Smoking age should rise from 18, by one year every year - Rishi Sunak
  • Nope, its not. You’re confusing having a right and having the freedom to do something. In one you have no constraint from the state to carry out an action, in the other you are entitled to something by society. Different things.

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    Smoking age should rise from 18, by one year every year - Rishi Sunak
  • Nope, its not. You're confusing having a right and having the freedom to do something. In one you have no constraint from the state to carry out an action, in the other you are entitled to something by society. Different things.

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    Legal experts: Trump's unhinged attack on judge in court shows he "realizes he's going to lose"
  • He's known this for a while now. Its why he's been pushing for delays to his trials, so he can just get another chance at being elected and then never leaving power again.

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