Those born after January 1, 2009 they will not be able to buy cigarettes and cigars. This is what the new one provides anti-smoking law approved by the British Parliament. The goal is to create the first generation without smokers. The measure, wanted by the prime minister Rishi Sunak, divided the Conservative Party but still managed to gather the votes needed to pass. The law stipulates the legal age for smoking it will rise by one year every twelve monthsso as to lead to a rapid extinction of smokers within one or two generations. The absolute ban on the purchase of cigarettes therefore comes into force for those born after 2008. Therefore, unless the law is subsequently revised, in 50 years only those over 65 will be able to smoke.
Support needed a laborer in approving the measure. While they are from the ranks of the conservatives 67 the MPs who slipped away from Prime Minister Sunak’s line. These include former prime ministers Boris Johnson e Liz Truss. “It’s an absolutely crazy measure,” Johnson said. “A nanny state,” Truss commented instead. While the Minister of Health Victoria Atkinsin the Chamber, made it known “that protecting children is a very conservative value”.
The anti-smoking crackdown is one of the most laws restrictive in the world. There New Zelandunder the prime minister Javinda Ardernhad worked on a measure similar to the British one, but had then given up. From the English government they let it be known that smoking it will not be criminalized and that the gradual changes mean that anyone who can legally buy cigarettes now will not be prevented from doing so in the future.
According to official data, transmitted by Euronewsthe number of people who smoke in the UK is decreased by two-thirds since the 1970s, but about 6.4 million people in the country (or about 13% of the population) still smoke. Authorities say smoking causes approx 80 thousand deaths per year in the UK and remains the leading preventable cause of death, disability and ill health.
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