Smoking Banned for Teenagers.
It begins, as these things often do, with something that sounds both sensible and faintly unreal. The UK government is pressing ahead with a generational smoking ban, which means that today’s teenagers may simply never be allowed to buy tobacco at all. Not later, not when they turn 18, not even when they are old enough to regret it properly. Just… never. A slow fade-out of smoking, engineered in law rather than left to culture.
On paper, it is rather compelling. Smoking remains one of the leading causes of preventable illness and death across Britain, despite years of public health campaigns…
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