Banning smoking for life: BBC News Review

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Buying cigarettes in the UK is to become illegal for anyone born after 2009 - 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
🔎 There was a backlash from parents when the school started charging for books.
🔎 Expect a backlash when you announce longer waiting hours.
derail - prevent a plan happening
🔎 The striking workers derailed the government's plans for pay cuts..
🔎 The pandemic derailed everyone's holiday plans for two years.
nuts - crazy
🔎 Trying to teach dogs to speak English is nuts.
🔎 She suggested climbing Mount Everest after just one week of training, which was nuts.
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✔️ 0:00 - Introduction
✔️ 0:24 - Story
✔️ 1:27 - Headline 1
✔️ 3:40 - Headline 2
✔️ 5:52 - Headline 3
✔️ 7:29 - Language summary
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@bbclearningenglish 14 күн бұрын

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@SheldonMeCooper 14 күн бұрын

The decision to ban the purchasing of cigarettes has received backlash from people who think it is nuts. Those people will try to derail the smoking ban.

@andyhelliwell4955 13 күн бұрын

It is about us losing democracy and the right to choose being taken away from people by them in power.They will expand the ban age upwards when it is in, then what is next for a ban ? Alcohol, meat, sugar, chocolate, coffee etc ? The politicians are taking peoples rights way everywhere, they are going over the top with dictating things.

@andyhelliwell4955 13 күн бұрын

It is about us losing democracy and the right to choose being taken away from people by the governmentr.They will expand the ban age upwards when it is in, then what is next for a ban ? Alcohol, meat, sugar, chocolate, coffee etc ? The politicians are taking peoples rights way everywhere, they are going over the top with dictating things.

@andyhelliwell4955 13 күн бұрын

They will expand the ban age upwards when it is in, then what is next for a ban ? Alcohol, meat, sugar, chocolate, coffee etc ?

@andyhelliwell4955 13 күн бұрын

If the government get away with this, what is next for the ban ? Meat, coffee, chocolate ?

@garthreid7114 12 күн бұрын

I openly promote black market tobacco, thankfully these new laws will increase the piracy and smuggling effort. Britain sells tobacco dirt cheap to Europe, do you think they'll stop selling to the rest of the world, while its own citizens are treated like twats?

@kabirsamaun 13 күн бұрын

I love this BBC English. The way it is presented

@matmateo8467 11 күн бұрын

Best channel to learn vocabulary! Love you guys! ☺ 😘

@Brian-fo6ew 14 күн бұрын

You should definitely invite Neil to your karaoke birthday party! Neil loves singing! He sang in at least two episodes of The English We Speak and in a Facebook story!

@LeandroDDavid 14 күн бұрын

I confess by the context you might understand some words. Anwyays I am learning lots of words by watching this channel. Keep up the nice work, BBC.

@amiraratkovic2619 13 күн бұрын

I appreciate it.❤

@motopayao 14 күн бұрын

Happy birthday, Beth🎉

@AmrSalem22 14 күн бұрын

I like the chemistry between you guys Thank you so much.

@keithshum8780 8 күн бұрын

thank you 🎉

@jeannemariearcaini 13 күн бұрын

VERY GOOD JOB GUYS. LOVE YOU SO MUCH. I'M A UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR. AND I LOVE YOU SO MUCH

@julioabbadie9828 12 күн бұрын

Interesting topic and news about the habit of smoking.Julio retired teacher. Dolores.Argentina

@jeannemariearcaini 13 күн бұрын

Very interesting always

@Bn0ali 14 күн бұрын

Nice lesson ❤

@BrianBrian-qn8sc 14 күн бұрын

It's nuts not to invite Neil to your birthday party, Beth! You need to invite him now! You should also invite George, Sian, Feifei, Tim, Tom, Rob, Georgie, Dylan, Jiaying, and Phil! Also, could you invite me too?🥺🥰

@user-iu4nn4nf6o 14 күн бұрын

Backlash, derail, nuts

@yo2trader539 13 күн бұрын

Shouldn't you be more worried about drugs than cigarettes?

@lastexile537 12 күн бұрын

No, drugs make U stupid and easier to control how you vote

@5688gamble 12 күн бұрын

Why worry about either when alcohol is so dangerous and so widely accepted.

@carlosfandango1931 13 күн бұрын

Absolutely great idea, well done Rishi

@BriantheBrick 14 күн бұрын

Happy birthday, Beth! However, you should invite Neil, otherwise he might be upset!

@zafarboyigitov 12 күн бұрын

Can you add synonyms which you offering as an alternative such as sabotage for derail at the end of the headlines

@Leeki-qn8rz 13 күн бұрын

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?

@strongman3355 14 күн бұрын

It is hilarious how Neil keeps mentioning the idea of him not being invited to the party throughout the video. 😂😂 Beth, do invite him, or else it can cause some backlash.😂 In all seriousness, the video is awesome. Thank you for this lesson. I really appreciate it.

@bbclearningenglish 13 күн бұрын

and thank you for your lovely comment :)

@user-lk3vg9ud1s 14 күн бұрын

와 진짜 좋은 영어 교육 영상이네요.

@miniemaria3970 8 күн бұрын

Cómo va aprender uno así sin explicación es😢 solo los que ya tienen idea aprenderan

@andreaghalan1 14 күн бұрын

Hi from Nepal 🇳🇵

@dr.aljameel8953 14 күн бұрын

Welcome I have a friend from there

@miavo6005 12 күн бұрын

Absolutely love it. That helps me so much to get what the news means. Really appreciate it 🥰

@eduzz4655 13 күн бұрын

Under no circumstances would it be legal nor democratic to have, one day, a 30-years-old British citizen or a UK resident able to buy a product and at the very same time a 29-years-old citizen unable legally to buy tobacco. It's an absolute madness!

@Sl-dh7si 14 күн бұрын

❤❤

@abbos_axiy 13 күн бұрын

Could anyone say full name of interviewers, please ?

@hachi6990 13 күн бұрын

People trying banning this smoking already before, but unsuccessfully.

@user-xj7rc6fp6b 14 күн бұрын

Remember the prohibition. What of those who lost their preffered amuse? They would ultimately find a way to assuage their compulsion. But that would be a bit violent adventure for smokers to step in.

@ZhuLongPeng 13 күн бұрын

lol. Neil is so humorous that he makes me laugh. Plz! Invite him to your party, Beth! It seems like he gonna cry❤

@honeyjawad 14 күн бұрын

Secondary smoking in London public places and bus stops is causing more damage to public health. Public smoking should also be banned. It is so hard to stand up on bus stops in London and breath fresh air without secondary smoking.

@5688gamble 12 күн бұрын

Smoking at bus stops is already banned, there are signs up and everything. It is just impossible to enforce, just like drug laws don't work- I could but any drug I wanted, they are everywhere. It is a stupid idea, do you not think the people who are allowed to purchase cigarettes won't sell them to younger smokers? How will the police enforce this? Will they ignore as many adults as they do in pursuit of cannabis smokers too do it? It is bonkers, and I don't like smoking.

@huseyinunal7396 11 күн бұрын

Coming from Seinfeld: "... They are nuts with temperature"

@hoangphuctran9310 13 күн бұрын

Trying to derail the government's plant to evacuate people in the flooded areas is nuts for sure

@ioanaspb8751 14 күн бұрын

Brilliant! I think that all countries should undertake this law everywhere around the world. Non only for those who were born later than 2008 or 2009. Also for all young people who were born in twenty first century! The next step is to forbid the whole industry producings cigarettes!❤

@lastexile537 12 күн бұрын

Yeah. Because unlimited government control over someone's freedom is always a good thing. You are nuts

@maggie2191 12 күн бұрын

I can't agree with you more.

@5688gamble 12 күн бұрын

Well they be as effective on preventing people gaining access to tobacco as they currently are at preventing drug distribution😂😂😂

@mintcrisp94 12 күн бұрын

@@5688gamble Shh, don't tell them, you're about to get a new car from a second revenue stream!

@NAVINMADHUSHAN-gu5wp 13 күн бұрын

Good 👍

@windvane23 2 күн бұрын

I just noticed that English cricketer Jonny Bairstow and Neil have a similar look. @Neil, do you play cricket?

@1996HaithamGamal 13 күн бұрын

Some Alternatives: Sabotage Scupper Wreck Outcry

@kamashun 14 күн бұрын

I wasn't invited either!

@chdlsp 9 күн бұрын

Come on Neil 😂 Looks a real situation that you're upset not being invited by Beth hahahahaha

@tammytsang3487 14 күн бұрын

Is it ok to write: “ My deadly illness has derailed my plan to visit Asia.” ? Thank you 🙏

@nirwanPrincess 14 күн бұрын

You should invite Neil for your party 😂😂

@randomcommentoftheday7872 13 күн бұрын

So much for freedom and choice. More control

@BrianNg-xx6bo 9 күн бұрын

Let smokers chew tobacco instead, chewing tobacco produces zero secondhand smoke and users chew entirely at their own risks similar to betel nuts.

@buoazej 7 күн бұрын

Not only that. American federal study, Fisher et al 2019, shows that smokeless tobacco use noticeably lowers mortality among men. So it’s actually a healthy habit.

@Kotori174 3 күн бұрын

Save your lungs, rock the gums ❤️ snus helped me quit smoking after 15 years. Much love to Sweden!

@keretaapiindonesia_ 13 күн бұрын

Iam smoker

@toobatooba5334 14 күн бұрын

❤❤❤💕

@voltydequa845 13 күн бұрын

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.

@MSM4981 13 күн бұрын

7:15 Berth, pls invite Neil to your party

@natalijapavlova6491 13 күн бұрын

It’s not surprising that the party didn’t support and derail that proposal (project) about smoking. It’s absolutely undemocratic to resolve the problem this way.

@kimzeck9827 13 күн бұрын

💐💐💐

@Epidemi.c 14 күн бұрын

All iniciatives are welcome but prohibition is not the way. Smoking is a personal decision. Now smokers have to hide. Banned smoking in public places is ridiculous. Maybe thinking in regulating the spaces where is allowed or not sound better

@buoazej 7 күн бұрын

In my culture and research, tobacco is a sacrament and medicine, therefore forcing Me to quit using it in any way is a persecution.

@MacherlaPrabhakar 13 күн бұрын

good decision

@ammarfazal3672 13 күн бұрын

here is the first time in bbc learining english extend from the 6 mint hahahah

@bbclearningenglish 13 күн бұрын

This is a different series - 'News Review' :) There are lots more episodes here: kzfaq.info/sun/PLcetZ6gSk968l1s4WuxwyhiyEUmg5GOZC

@user-hp3qd4yy3v 13 күн бұрын

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.

@HumbleBee123 13 күн бұрын

Hopefully it will follow that alcohol will be banned too. I just watched amy Winehouse film in cinema and she died from alcohol. My mum and brother are alcoholics. And their physical and mental health is really being negatively impacted.

@5688gamble 12 күн бұрын

@@HumbleBee123I could become a moonshiner! Or the next Al Capone! Great idea, more markets for criminals to dominate! Or streets are awash with drugs. Alcohol is extremely easy to make, tobacco is as easy to grow as cannabis, without all of the odour associated with cannabis. Tobacco will still be easy to obtain for anyone born before 2009. Smoking rates are in decline, prohibition is unnecessary. Improving people's lives with better services and infrastructure would do a lot more good to bring down the rates of substance misuse than nana and more money wasted on policing something that you can never make a dent in! Honest health campaigns do more than prohibition.

@ShiblyAbdullah-ht5pz 13 күн бұрын

Thanks bbc !!

@ayam6850 14 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂why Beth didn’t invited Neil to her birthday ?

@ademargrau9318 13 күн бұрын

I think it's an excellent idea to ban smoking for young people cuz smoking is very dangerous for health. I would really like to be copied that idea, and that idea was applied in Argetnine law

@ipressedabutton 13 күн бұрын

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 ?

@user-tu9ih5ck9c 14 күн бұрын

Went out( of) the window.Gone to the dogs.

@duongquanglong2006 13 күн бұрын

Nuts isn't nuts. I like nuts

@milly5678899 8 күн бұрын

Great explanation of the latest news related to tobacco ban. Thanks!

@afighterinthecauseofgod7988 13 күн бұрын

there was a huge backlash from aspiring migrants when the immigration authorities tried to derail the current immigration systems as some people claim it's nuts to change the system after many people paid money to get this level

@borhanuddin681 13 күн бұрын

Smoking 🚬 is injurious to health nevertheless let me give a packet of B & H Switch.😂

@somi228 9 күн бұрын

Imran Khan faced backlash from establishment when he wanted to eradicate corruption. The establishment wanted to derail his plans and they are still trying to do so . The establishment's policy is nuts

@user-bl3oj2wq3b 14 күн бұрын

You are fit for gorgi

@antonellaniero7725 12 күн бұрын

Excellent vocabulary! Thanks

@bbclearningenglish 12 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@ibrahimusmanadamu5812 10 күн бұрын

What an educating program, I like it.

@StaceyOfficialCollins 13 күн бұрын

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!

@5688gamble 12 күн бұрын

Just like how when they banned drugs, drugs went away, definitely no black markets or anything, out definitely was not easier for me to obtain cannabis than alcohol when I was a teenager, the way on drugs has been so effective that you never hear of anyone using cocaine or heroin anymore, can barely even remember what those are. Lol

@user-hp3qd4yy3v 13 күн бұрын

Who says tobacco is more dangerous than alcohol? Why bans tobacco but no alcohol? Even more why not ban others type of drugs? Films 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. Dissatisfaction people have about reality is the problem and drugs, alcohol, etc are means to escape it. The problem is more profound than banning tobacco.

@daddy9267 13 күн бұрын

Um Sorry english Natural speakers would say, " its a nutts idea", just tipping you straight ;)

@yazairaquispe7544 8 күн бұрын

A valuable lesson as always 😊

@raubkopiererausleidenschaf1266 13 күн бұрын

They allow Marihuana in the same time here but talk about banning tobacco , smoking a joint without filter you got 1000 time more cancer risk. You can use snuff tobacco e-cigarette chewing-gum Ionos heat device without the blue cancer smoke 90% less toxic Banning is the cancer by itself and it doesnt stop by the right stuff. Adult people got the right to decide by them self what they consume and alchohol by the way is more dangerous then tobacco with the new modern sets.

@ganboldtsevegjav7091 13 күн бұрын

Too many times mentiomed BBS, it is wasting learners time

@zahrounnurullaily623 11 күн бұрын

i like both of youuu... super neil and beth ❤

@prpafinfer4608 13 күн бұрын

Lame

@user-vadimsirbu 10 күн бұрын

A prohibition for smoking would be useful for everyone, starting IT and Army contractors ... .

@user-kv3sv8ro8t 13 күн бұрын

I do all my best to listen your video without seeing your speech on the screen, but I find all the time difficult to understand you.

@bbclearningenglish 12 күн бұрын

You can turn the subtitles on to help :)!

@user-qu4xi2sm4n 8 күн бұрын

UK has made a wise choice, it will have three fallouts : billions of savings in social security because people will live longer and therefore pay more taxes and insurance tuitions. Second, UK will save on health spending, not dealing with the devastating impact of tobacco on human health, three : UK will re allocate the tobacco import fund to another, more constructive thing. I hope that similar laws will target processed foods and sugar added.

@bbclearningenglish 7 күн бұрын

👍 Excellent writing! 🤓 We just have one quick correction - we 'make a choice' instead of 'doing a choice', so we would say 'The UK has made a wise choice'.

@user-qu4xi2sm4n 7 күн бұрын

@@bbclearningenglish thank you for correcting me

@lilianatria2877 12 күн бұрын

I think that it's fair that the government plays a role in minimizing the possibility that the young generation starts smoking. Those who judge this initiative as nuts and aim to derail it either are smokers or belong to the tobacco lobbies

@5688gamble 12 күн бұрын

It is nuts though, and I dislike tobacco! Prohibition doesn't work, have we learned nothing? Alcohol prohibition failed on the US and black markets ran riot, the ear on drugs is a continuing failure and black markets are running riot. How will they enforce this ban? Police can't even show up within an hour if a knife man is trying to kick in your door, let alone to enforce bans on igniting various plant matter and inhaling it. We spend a fortune on nonviolent drug "crime" but drugs are now prevent than ever! They may wish to actually do something about the misery, poverty and inequality that leads into poor mental health and addiction, nope, we will just ask the understaffed, underpaid and overworked police force to take on another burden banning things we don't like.

@buoazej 7 күн бұрын

How Nazi of You.