The plans - which are subject to a 12-week public consultation - seek to prevent smoking, vaping and the use of heated tobacco in these settings across England.

  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
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    4 yo me: coughs intermittently for several minutes

    Mother of the year: angrily stabs out her cigarette and waves her hand over the ashtray a few times “There! It’s out! Shut up!”

    Me: continues coughing as the windows are all up and a literal hand wave does jack shit

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      I’m so grateful none of my family smoked (even grandparents), but I fucking hated when a friend’s parents did crap like that. Fortunately my childhood was the time period when in my country that stopped being seen as acceptable. I also remember friends’ parents being weirdly combative about the idea that they should wear a seat belt

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        The whole “seatbelts can trap you, it’s safer to be thrown clear of the collision” nonsense survived well into my lifetime. It’s a mind-bogglingly stupid concept that far outlived the active propaganda campaign. I didn’t start wearing a seatbelt until I started driving, which in hindsight is hard to believe. But buckling up was the exception and not the rule when I was a kid in the 80s.