![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/smoking-will-be-banned-under-sunak-plan-to-stop-people-buying-cigarettes/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-141.png&description=Breaking FAG END Published : 12:37, 4 Oct 2023 Updated : 12:37, 4 Oct 2023 SMOKING will be banished in Britain after Rishi Sunak today announced a ban on the next generation buying fags. The PM is mounting an historic crackdown on cigarettes by raising the legal age every year until there are no smokers left. 1 Rishi Sunak has announced a smoking crackdown He said: "We must tackle the single biggest entirely preventable cause of ill health disability and death. "And that is smoking, and our country. Smoking causes, one in four cancer deaths." He said his plans would mean a 14-year-old today will never legally be sold a cigarette. The tough new anti-smoking measures would see the smoking age increased by a year every year to eventually make it illegal for anyone to buy cigarettes. The plan was originally rejected by ministers when suggested previously but has now been green-lighted. The Government is committed to making England 'smokefree' by 2030, meaning fewer than 5 per cent of the public using cigarettes.){kind=link}
SMOKING will be banished in Britain after Rishi Sunak today announced plans to ban the next generation buying fags.
The PM is mounting an historic crackdown on cigarettes by raising the legal age every year until there are no smokers left.
He said: “We must tackle the single biggest entirely preventable cause of ill health disability and death.
“And that is smoking, and our country. Smoking causes, one in four cancer deaths.”
He said his plans would mean a 14-year-old today will never legally be sold a cigarette.