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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

"WELL WHAT ABOUT" shut up, oh shut up. Ban drug = force people to do unsafe things to get an unsafe version of the drug. It's simple. That's how it worked, that's how it works RIGHT NOW, and that's how it will continue to work unless something fundamental changes in the society. Exposure won't be reduced. Kids get tobacco illegally anyways. Nothing is changing for them. Next step after that is underground production of tobacco products which means PEOPLE WILL DIE