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As the parent of two little girls, I often think about how their childhood is different from mine. The seven-year-old is learning about AI at school. The five-year-old is given internet-based homework every week. And they are both absolutely repulsed by the idea of smoking.<\/p>\n
That was not the prevailing sentiment when I was young. Smoking was a central part of our culture. Which is why the UK\u2019s recent passing of a generational sales ban on tobacco products feels like such a big deal.<\/p>\n
This is what\u2019s described as an \u201cendgame\u201d approach. While many tobacco control strategies\u2014such as taxation or gory imagery\u2014aim to reduce consumption, policies like the UK\u2019s are designed to eliminate it entirely. It\u2019s a new approach, and no one knows whether it will work. But it\u2019s an enticing prospect\u2014and it\u2019s starting to look a lot less radical.<\/p>\n
Find out why generational tobacco bans are gaining support.<\/p>\n
This <\/strong>story<\/strong> is from The Checkup, our weekly biotech newsletter. <\/strong>Sign up<\/strong> to receive it in your inbox every Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2014You do your own time is a short story by Elizabeth Bear, an award-winning speculative fiction author.<\/em><\/p>\n There we were, a regular murderers’ row of librarians. Turning around in the nave of our library to greet the sound of footsteps, pistols leveled in case whoever was coming in didn’t respect sanctuary.<\/p>\n I pulled down a solid-state drive full of biographies and case studies of people who had spent time\u2014and sometimes their whole lives\u2014in labor camps or chattelhood. It was illegal to possess, and the feds used smart agents to track down and obliterate any copies. Which was why we were sending one to the stars.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n #Download #smoking #endgame #Elizabeth #Bear #story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the parent of two little girls, I often think about how their childhood is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8028,803,7553,11250,213,5752,11249],"class_list":["post-15964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-bear","tag-download","tag-elizabeth","tag-endgame","tag-smoking","tag-story","tag-the-download-a-smoking-quotendgamequot-and-a-new-elizabeth-bear-story"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cig-template-new.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cig-template-new-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cig-template-new-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cig-template-new-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cig-template-new-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cig-template-new.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cig-template-new.jpg",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cig-template-new-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cig-template-new-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}You do your own time<\/strong><\/h3>\n