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.

  • HumanPenguinEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    If we ban oxygen all crimes would stop. And the planet would soon recover.

    Fortunately we are democratic enough not to listen to outright stupid ideas. Or to punish all for the stupidity of some.