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United Kingdom: the government wants to ban the sale of cigarettes to the generation born after 2009
The British government wants to ban the sale of cigarettes to the generation born after 2009. According to this bill, supported 70% by the British, tobacconists would be prohibited from selling tobacco to anyone born after this date.
(France 2)
The British government wants to ban the sale of cigarettes to the generation born after 2009. According to this bill, supported 70% by the British, tobacconists would be prohibited from selling tobacco to anyone born after this date.
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.
“Puffs”, another issue
“People will manage to get their supplies elsewhere. The older ones will sell them under the cover of fire to the younger ones,” believes 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.
Among our sources:
Data from the World Health Organization: proportion of smokers by country in 2022 (in English) These figures have been rounded on air for clarity.
AFP
BBC
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