This has the potential to phase out smoking in young people almost completely as early as 2040. Proposed new legislation will make it an offence for anyone born on or after 1 January 2009 to be sold tobacco products – effectively raising the smoking age by a year each year until it applies to the whole population. The government is set to introduce a historic new law to stop children who turn 14 this year or younger from ever legally being sold cigarettes in England, in a bid to create the first ‘smokefree generation’. Move would be the most significant public health intervention in a generation, saving tens of thousands of lives and saving the NHS billions of pounds.įurther crackdown on youth vaping will see government consult on restricting disposable vapes and regulating flavours and packaging to reduce their appeal to children.

Smoking is the UK’s biggest preventable killer – causing around 1 in 4 cancer deaths and 64,000 in England alone – costing the economy and wider society £17 billion each year. Government to introduce historic new law to protect future generations of young people from the harms of smoking.

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