Will UK cigarette ban work?

@helenS I think it will encourage a black market trade - with obvious criminal involvement

@ArtieKat I understood that cigarettes were the unofficial currency in Germany after WW-II.

@helenS And in prison.

@ArtieKat [quote]I think it will encourage a black market trade - with obvious criminal involvement[/quote]My though exactly.

@helenS Just to note: Banning of specific activities (like smoking) in specific places and even in public spaces has worked well not only in France (in France!). But the UK proposal is for control over the sale, not the use, of cigarettes. I believe the sale or general availability of cigarettes would be very difficult - likely impossible - to control, much less prevent.

@ArtieKat[quote] I understood that cigarettes were the unofficial currency ...[/quote] In prisons, even between poisoners and guards, I believe; and not excluding WW2 death camps.

@Really I get that. But nobody believed the French would abide by those rules imposed on them by faceless bureaucrats. Everyone thought they would simply ignore those dictates, and happily keep smoking their Gauloises while having a glass of wine at their local village bar.

@helenS I get that; but the French and the English enjoy each having their own, distinctive forms of arrogance. They've been at it with each other for many centuries :). When in France I always wore a saltire on my lapel hoping my nationality would not be mistaken. if I were there now, with my more recent N. American accent, I'd wear a maple leaf for similar reasons.

@Really

[quote]I'd wear a maple leaf for similar reasons[/quote]

That reminds me of being in Cornwall in the 1990s when lots of buildings near St Ives were sporting the Canadian flag!

https://www.icsf.net/samudra/flying-the-canadian-flag/

@ArtieKat Ah yes, 'Captain Canada!" (Brian Tobin). Who can still remember his "speeches rife with rhetoric and youthful exuberance"? (Quoting Wikipedia)