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.

  • ThenThreeMore
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    29 months ago

    How would that even work? You can easily make alcohol at home, can't exactly do that with tobacco.

    • @Psythik@lemm.ee
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      99 months ago

      I'm sure you could just grow your own tobacco at home if you really wanted to. Like how people grow their own weed.