alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 年前Sunak proposes raising smoking age every year to create 'smoke-free' generationnews.sky.comexternal-linkmessage-square405fedilinkarrow-up1774arrow-down125cross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.world
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minus-squareJaarsh119@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down4·2 年前The proposal is to raise the legal smoking age every year. Meaning each yearly increase, this hypothetical 47yo will also age a year and so will be able to smoke forever
minus-squareRubanski@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down3·2 年前Not if he wanted to pick up smoking one year before legal age. So he will be chasing that legal age forever and can’t smoke even if he’s 68
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down12·2 年前That isn’t how time works.
minus-squareGuntrigger@feddit.chlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 年前Are you saying that time advances at a different rate to human aging? 1 year to the earth is how many years to a human?
The proposal is to raise the legal smoking age every year. Meaning each yearly increase, this hypothetical 47yo will also age a year and so will be able to smoke forever
Not if he wanted to pick up smoking one year before legal age. So he will be chasing that legal age forever and can’t smoke even if he’s 68
That isn’t how time works.
Are you saying that time advances at a different rate to human aging? 1 year to the earth is how many years to a human?