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

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.

  • burningmatchesEnglish
    263·
    1 year ago

    Shittest high ever. Only people already hooked would be interested and they could buy it legally anyway.

    • Dontfearthereaper123@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      I got my first cig from a black market dealer. In my country black market dealers have popped up to get around taxes on cheaper foriegn cigs