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.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    (Incidentally my guess is it’s not high street vape shops selling to kids but the same garages, newsagents etc that would have sold them fags in the past but that’s just anecdotal evidence and conjecture).

    Indeed. Let’s not forget that, back in the day, they’re the ones that sold “loosies” to school kids.