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 Ай бұрын

Go to our website to download the audio and transcript and for a practice quiz ⬇ www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/newsreview-2024/unit-1/session-16

@kabirsamaun Ай бұрын

I love this BBC English. The way it is presented

@matmateo8467 Ай бұрын

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

@motopayao Ай бұрын

Happy birthday, Beth🎉

@Brian-fo6ew Ай 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!

@julioabbadie9828 Ай бұрын

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

@SheldonMeCooper Ай 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 Ай 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 Ай 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 Ай 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 Ай бұрын

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

@garthreid7114 Ай 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?

@StaceyOfficialCollins Ай 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 Ай 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

@ayesha_fan 13 күн бұрын

It’s an act of violence on freedom of choice. Everyone has a right to choose whether they wanna smoke or not. Plus, anyonw who’s elder can buy you cigarettes if you ask them outside the store. Simple, just like teens do it.

@user-iu4nn4nf6o Ай бұрын

Backlash, derail, nuts

@assel2306 6 күн бұрын

As always informative lesson, thank you ❤❤

@bbclearningenglish 6 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@amiraratkovic2619 Ай бұрын

I appreciate it.❤

@jeannemariearcaini Ай бұрын

Very interesting always

@LeandroDDavid Ай 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.

@AmrSalem22 Ай бұрын

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

@keithshum8780 Ай бұрын

thank you 🎉

@Bn0ali Ай бұрын

Nice lesson ❤

@miniemaria3970 Ай бұрын

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

@BriantheBrick Ай бұрын

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

@Leeki-qn8rz Ай 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?

@zafarboyigitov Ай бұрын

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

@carlosfandango1931 Ай бұрын

Absolutely great idea, well done Rishi

@jeannemariearcaini Ай бұрын

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

@BrianBrian-qn8sc Ай 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?🥺🥰

@md.azimuddin5035 5 күн бұрын

Outstanding

@andreaghalan1 Ай бұрын

Hi from Nepal 🇳🇵

@dr.aljameel8953 Ай бұрын

Welcome I have a friend from there

@yo2trader539 Ай бұрын

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

@lastexile537 Ай бұрын

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

@5688gamble Ай бұрын

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

@abbos_axiy Ай бұрын

Could anyone say full name of interviewers, please ?

@user-lk3vg9ud1s Ай бұрын

와 진짜 좋은 영어 교육 영상이네요.

@user-xj7rc6fp6b Ай 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.

@strongman3355 Ай 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 Ай бұрын

and thank you for your lovely comment :)

@ZhuLongPeng Ай бұрын

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

@mubaarigmaxamud7221 3 күн бұрын

Any one who was born after 2009, can not smoke, it was banned by uk government, despite its incredible decision its got a backlash from some people.

@nirwanPrincess Ай бұрын

You should invite Neil for your party 😂😂

@windvane23 Ай бұрын

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

@kamashun Ай бұрын

I wasn't invited either!

@tammytsang3487 Ай бұрын

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

@MSM4981 Ай бұрын

7:15 Berth, pls invite Neil to your party

@khrystyna397 15 күн бұрын

Wish I never smoked a cigarette in my life

@Thebillionere 8 күн бұрын

Thats good me either 😊😊😊

@user-vc8ko4jp3c 26 күн бұрын

Sunak actually has reasonable ideas, others don't care about the nation's health, they care only about the money(. The presenters of this podcast are great!

@Sl-dh7si Ай бұрын

❤❤

@miavo6005 Ай бұрын

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

@1996HaithamGamal Ай бұрын

Some Alternatives: Sabotage Scupper Wreck Outcry

@hachi6990 Ай бұрын

People trying banning this smoking already before, but unsuccessfully.

@natalijapavlova6491 Ай 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.

@romanjaspe4172 14 күн бұрын

😂 thanks so much 👏👏👏👍

@mimiacharjee2036 15 күн бұрын

Vocabulary from this learning English - Backlash -strong rejection of an idea Derail -stop a plan Nuts-crazy

@honeyjawad Ай 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 Ай 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.

@eduzz4655 Ай 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!

@ayam6850 Ай бұрын

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

@blazingstar9638 20 күн бұрын

It’s pretty easy to grow tobacco

@hoangphuctran9310 Ай бұрын

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

@randomcommentoftheday7872 Ай бұрын

So much for freedom and choice. More control

@user-zv8qd3we3n Ай бұрын

Not watching this channel every week, which is nuts.

@bbclearningenglish Ай бұрын

Ha! Maybe it's time to start?

@milly5678899 Ай бұрын

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

@mubaarigmaxamud7221 3 күн бұрын

Certainly, smoking is a serious for health wether its consuming by young person or adult. I am recommending to increase the age of banning upto eighteen.

@antonellaniero7725 Ай бұрын

Excellent vocabulary! Thanks

@bbclearningenglish Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@ioanaspb8751 Ай 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 Ай бұрын

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

@maggie2191 Ай бұрын

I can't agree with you more.

@5688gamble Ай бұрын

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

@mintcrisp94 Ай бұрын

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

@user-tu9ih5ck9c Ай бұрын

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

@ammarfazal3672 Ай бұрын

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

@bbclearningenglish Ай бұрын

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

@chdlsp Ай бұрын

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

@huseyinunal7396 Ай бұрын

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

@BrianNg-xx6bo Ай 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 Ай 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 Ай бұрын

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

@alextsitovich9800 29 күн бұрын

Nuts, bananas and crackers is a good idea for a casual meal, I think. Or is it nuts, bananas and crackers?

@ShiblyAbdullah-ht5pz Ай бұрын

Thanks bbc !!

@voltydequa845 Ай 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.

@NAVINMADHUSHAN-gu5wp Ай бұрын

Good 👍

@MacherlaPrabhakar Ай бұрын

good decision

@kimzeck9827 Ай бұрын

💐💐💐

@user-rw1rq8jz6g 21 күн бұрын

Unless it is banned for everyone of any age it won’t work

@tanduongtrong3409 5 күн бұрын

backlash= out cry = objection= disapprove= discouragement= a strong rejection of idea ,,, nuts=crazy

@buoazej Ай 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.

@keretaapiindonesia_ Ай бұрын

Iam smoker

@Epidemi.c Ай 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

@toobatooba5334 Ай бұрын

❤❤❤💕

@somi228 Ай 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

@ibrahimusmanadamu5812 Ай бұрын

What an educating program, I like it.

@user-hp3qd4yy3v Ай 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 Ай 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 Ай 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.

@ademargrau9318 Ай 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

@yazairaquispe7544 Ай бұрын

A valuable lesson as always 😊

@ipressedabutton Ай 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 ?

@afighterinthecauseofgod7988 Ай 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

@user-bl3oj2wq3b Ай бұрын

You are fit for gorgi

@zahrounnurullaily623 Ай бұрын

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

@user-hp3qd4yy3v Ай 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.

@prpafinfer4608 Ай бұрын

Lame

@daddy9267 Ай бұрын

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

@borhanuddin681 Ай бұрын

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

@raubkopiererausleidenschaf1266 Ай 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.

@RaquelPerez-pr6fn Ай бұрын

😸👍👍👌👌👏👏👏

@ganboldtsevegjav7091 Ай бұрын

Too many times mentiomed BBS, it is wasting learners time

@user-rc4yw3fd4z Ай бұрын

@user-vadimsirbu Ай бұрын

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

@richardhuang6054 Ай бұрын

666🎉

@duongquanglong2006 Ай бұрын

Nuts isn't nuts. I like nuts

@user-kv3sv8ro8t Ай 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 Ай бұрын

You can turn the subtitles on to help :)!

@user-qu4xi2sm4n Ай 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 Ай 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 Ай бұрын

@@bbclearningenglish thank you for correcting me

@lilianatria2877 Ай 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 Ай 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 Ай бұрын

How Nazi of You.