Buying cigarettes in the UK is to become illegal for anyone born after 2009 â for their whole life. Lawmakers have approved a government plan to create a smoke-free generation. The law will make the sale of tobacco products, but not the act of smoking, illegal. Tobacco use is the UK’s single biggest preventable cause of death, killing 80,000 people every year.
Key words and phrases
backlash – strong rejection of an idea
ð There was a backlash from parents when the school started charging for books.
ð Expect a backlash when you announce longer waiting hours.
derail – prevent a plan happening
ð The striking workers derailed the government’s plans for pay cuts..
ð The pandemic derailed everyone’s holiday plans for two years.
nuts – crazy
ð Trying to teach dogs to speak English is nuts.
ð She suggested climbing Mount Everest after just one week of training, which was nuts.
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Lame
good decision
here is the first time in bbc learining english extend from the 6 mint hahahah
Thanks. The word 'Derail' reminds me of the phrase 'back on track.' . Also you said 'nuts' is not used in front of nouns.. But 'nutcase'.. is it an exception?
So, if you were born after 2009, you've officially been banned from picking up a smoking habit – looks like the future is smoke-free and full of clean lungs!
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Very interesting always
Teaching English. – teach your society that islam teaches you " it's your duty to kill all the infidels" teach them that islam is the greatest THREAD to mankind
People trying banning this smoking already before, but unsuccessfully.
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Who says tobacco is more dangerous than alcohol? Why bans tobacco but no alcohol? Even more why not ban others type of drugs? Films from Hollywood show us teenagers drinking alcohol and consuming drugs happily "without consequences" for their health, but tobacco is the enemy. We are living in a hypocrite society.
The problem is dissatisfaction people have about reality, and drugs, alcohol, etc are means to escape it. The problem is more profound than banning tobacco.
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people are going to do illogical stupid and undermining behaviors.. that much is factual and documented. among them, is smoking, addictive drugs, alcohol, violence and crime.. you would like to ban all of those, smoking, drugs, alcohol, stupid behavior and crime… but are you really being realistic ?
Too many times mentiomed BBS, it is wasting learners time
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Some Alternatives:
Sabotage
Scupper
Wreck
Outcry
This nice channel is about learning English but I see so many soap opera aficionados here that derail towards "wow! personification" syndrome.
Can't concentrate on key phrases because the nut-propaganda around smoking is causing me some gastritis.
When I was young all the centenarians were smokers. And they often used to smoke genuine tobacco rolled inside whatever paper (sometimes plasticized one).
Years ago I was talking to an American pulmonologist that was trying to sell me the same story about the smoking incidence. I do not care if it sounds presumptions, but I am immune to demagogy much more than to tobacco effects. I told her that she should show me a statistics based on just tobacco effects, taking out the drunkards, toxics, those that smoke more than 40 cigarettes, those that live in a highly polluted areas, etc. I simply knew they were putting everything inside, while the rightly interpreted statistics showed that the incidence had to do with other agents, especially other kinds of air pollution.
I remember a scandal, that went gigantic or microscopic depending on the country's media, about PM (not the Prime Minister) putting ammoniac and chocolate inside tobacco to make people smoke more (because bronchial airways automatically close in case of difficulty, while ammoniac and chocolate opens them).
Meantime, before the scandal broke out, they were doing the same anti-tobacco propaganda, but were failing short when it comes to checking what they put into tobacco of cigarettes.
This last one? I'll repeat the one that I made-up during the covid times : It's all hocus-pocus for the sake of shifting focus.
I do think the idea of banning smoke is really nuts. Although smoke is bad for health, everyone has options to choose. It is just for control. Bullshit
Could anyone say full name of interviewers, please ?
Pathetic nannying
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Shouldn't you be more worried about drugs than cigarettes?
Nice lesson âĪ
Backlash = strongly rejected
The regulation of banning smoking is backlashed by today's smokers. Unfortunately, they cannot see a problem.
My offer was backlashed by my husband.
Derail = sabotage = prevent a plan happening
My plans are derailed by the wrong timing.
They sabotage my crazy decision to jump from the cliff.
Nuts= bananas= crazy
What is nuts is not banning smoking earlier.
Learning a new language in one day is nuts.