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.

      • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        And then I said nothing because I wasn’t my uncle who died from a heart attack after eating a McDonald’s for every meal and he said nothing because he was dead

        • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOPEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.

          “First they came” by Mr Kipling (1967-2025), who made exceedingly good cakes, until The Sugar Prohibition Act.