Plans to stop young people born since 2009 ever smoking are being debated and will be voted on later.
Rishi Sunak’s bill aims to create the UK’s first smoke-free generation in a major public health intervention.
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill would ensure anyone turning 15 from this year would be banned from buying cigarettes, and also aims to make vapes less appealing to children.
A number of Tory MPs have told the BBC they won’t back the bill.
The BBC understands that Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch is considering voting against the plans.
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The crazy thing is that back in 2015 ish, i was convinced that smoking will be gone in a few years. Less and less people smoked because they interduced new laws to prevent people from smoking indoors, cigarettes got more and more expensive and so on. Now i feel like more people smoke than ever. My sister quit when she had children 7 years ago. Then she smoked like a cigarette a day because her boyfriend smoked. Now she somehow is a full blown smoker. Her friend was the exact same. I haven’t been on a tinder date with a non smoker in like 5 years. Pretty much all my friends smoke, they either never gave up, or somehow picked up smoking in the past few years. It’s somehow worse than when i grew up in the 90’s, except people don’t smoke inside anymore. What a clown world.