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United Kingdom: a bill for tobacco-free generations
United Kingdom: a bill for tobacco-free generations
(franceinfo)
The United Kingdom is taking a further step towards outright banning tobacco for people born after 2009, according to a bill voted by British elected officials.
Will the United Kingdom gradually become a completely smoke-free country? The government wants to ban the sale of cigarettes to the generation born after 2009. An anti-smoking bill among the most restrictive in the world, supported 70% by the British. How to go about it ? According to this bill, tobacconists would be prohibited from selling tobacco to anyone born after 2009, that is to say young people currently aged 15 and under.
15% smokers
“People will manage to get their supplies elsewhere. The older ones will sell it under the cover to the younger ones”, estimates a young Briton. The United Kingdom has only 15% smokers, half as many as in France, but it is still too much for the health authorities. Another issue: that of “puffs”, these disposable vaping devices whose use is exploding among minors despite the ban. The United Kingdom wants to regulate tastes and packaging to make them less attractive to young people.
