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Rishi Sunak considers banning cigarettes for next generation (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by EdenRester@kbin.social to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That is the most reasonable route. A "core charge" type of model where you get the addition fee waived if you bring in an old one.

Same scheme they use with car batteries and some auto parts. Although, some auto parts have a core charge as part of a dubious ploy to prevent the aftermarket from getting the headlight for duplication.