Britain wants to ban smoking for future generations and is following New Zealand’s example with a strict anti-tobacco policy.
He is proposing to raise the age limit for buying tobacco by one year a year from the current 18, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday at his Conservative Party’s annual meeting in Manchester. The goal is that a 14-year-old can never legally buy a cigarette and that his generation can grow up smoke-free.
The ability of young people to obtain e-cigarettes must also be severely limited, Sunak said. Recently, doctors have increasingly warned about the spread of so-called vapes among minors. Tens of thousands of people die every year as a result of their nicotine addiction, the Prime Minister said. Damage caused by smoking would also place a huge burden on the NHS and the economy.
Most of Great Britain, England, wants to be smoke-free by 2030. However, according to studies, the target will be missed in a number of years. Recently, the British government, which is responsible for England, announced, among other things, a pilot project in which e-cigarettes would be made available free of charge to one million smokers.
Around the turn of the year, New Zealand laid down the law that anyone born since January 1, 2009 could never buy tobacco again in their life. This includes raising the minimum age for purchasing cigarettes by one year every year from 2027. (sda/dpa)
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