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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    1 year ago

    About bloody time. Cigarettes are disgusting and do nothing but immense harm to those who smoke them, and those around them.

    Sunak is a tosser, but cigarettes are a no brainer. Sure, old boomers still smoke them, but only the dumbest young people still smoke, and most of them use e-cigs (which are still bad, but nowhere remotely near as bad).

    Several of my grandparents died before I could ever know them because of smoking, for example. Fuck smoking. Smoking kills.

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      1 year ago

      Two of my grandparents died before my birth because they smoked. I smoked. I still vape. I hate that companies make money on addiction. This is still stupid.

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        1 year ago

        The lesser evil is well-regulated companies than whatever-goes black market sources.