Exclusive: Sources say law could gradually increase smoking age to ultimately prevent sales to people born after certain year

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Rishi Sunak is considering introducing some of the world’s toughest anti-smoking measures that would in effect ban the next generation from ever being able to buy cigarettes, the Guardian has learned.

Whitehall sources said the prime minister was looking at measures similar to those brought in by New Zealand last December. They involved steadily increasing the legal smoking age so tobacco would end up never being sold to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009.

      • CookieJarObserverEnglish
        52·
        1 year ago

        No they are just companys assholes are people trying to take rights of others away.

        • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
          25·
          1 year ago

          They should also remove mental health services as people should have the right to kill themselves /s