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United Kingdom: a bill plans to ban the sale of cigarettes to those born from 2009
A British government bill plans to ban the sale of cigarettes to the generation born from 2009. The text also attacks disposable vaping devices.
(franceinfo)
A British government bill plans to ban the sale of cigarettes to the generation born from 2009. The text also attacks disposable vaping devices.
Will British teenagers be banned from smoking for life? The government wants to ban the sale of cigarettes to the generation born from 2009. A measure that is rather popular in the United Kingdom, where only 15% of adults are smokers, half as many as in France. “Smoking is bad, and we’re better off without it. So I think it’s a good thing.”estimates a Briton.
The anger of manufacturers and tobacconists
The bill, which also attacks “puffs”, these disposable vaping devices, on the other hand triggers the anger of manufacturers and tobacconists. “Prohibiting has never been a good solution. Menthol cigarettes, for example, have been banned, but people continue to bring them from abroad”, says Mitalee Shah, tobacconist in the United Kingdom. The debate rages within the ruling Conservative Party itself. But with the support of the Labor opposition, the country of Winston Churchill, a great cigar lover, could adopt one of the most restrictive anti-smoking laws in the world.
