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

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/worldnews@lemmy.ml/t/479123

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.

  • @thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13•9 months ago

    Because prohibition has been such a great success for other drugs.

    The New Zealand law is ridiculous and not something we should be emulating. Smoking is already steadily declining in the UK, we should be sticking with the current approach with the view that smoking can die a natural death.