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Rishi Sunak considers banning cigarettes for next generation (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Alcohol is a bigger problem in the UK.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Alcohol is a problem most places. Best thing I ever did for myself was quit drinking entirely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not drinking at all and drinking far less is actually trending up significantly with younger demographics in the UK. It's the older generations who've got the real problems. A law like this wouldn't do anything to help with that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I wouldn't count too much on younger generations drinking less forever. Smoking was in decline here for years for younger demographics but recently went back up. The same might happen for alcohol. You never know.