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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.
I like how they focused on vapes first and then looked at smoking laws…
Have to say it though I’d agree with doing something pro-active anti-smoking, but he can say any old thing knowing he won’t have to follow through on it now.
First they came for the vapes…
And I said nothing…?
… because I’m not a vape.
Then they came for the ciggies,
And then I said nothing because I am not a fag
Then they came for the McDonald’s,
And then I said nothing because I wasn’t my uncle who died from a heart attack after eating a McDonald’s for every meal and he said nothing because he was dead