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.

  • @KillAllPoorPeople
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    This just isn’t true though. Other countries ban alcohol and it doesn’t turn into what happened during American alcohol prohibition. Nor does it mean banning needs to be done like it was done during that period either. You people gotta start thinking a bit deeper about stuff.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      What countries have successfully banned alcohol? Besides Muslim countries that employ capital punishment.

          • @KillAllPoorPeople
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            1 year ago

            Do you pick out Alabama when you talk about the entirety of the US? Or do you tend to be less xenophobic and less racist?