alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoSunak 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 years agoThe 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 years agoNot 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 years agoThat isn’t how time works.
minus-squareGuntrigger@feddit.chlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 years agoAre 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?