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.

  • FatLegTedEnglish
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    9 months ago

    At the time (mid '80s) there was roughly 4DM to £1 and a pack was about DM2.50 from a street vending machine.

    I remember those machines whilst serving in Army in early 80s. German fags were terrible and had a wierd smell though.