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Anger over New Zealand’s U-turn on smoking ban: Health experts say they are ‘appalled’ by ‘purely political’ move – as Rishi Sunak vows to press ahead with law to stop kids aged 14 now from ever buying cigarettes

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Plans by New Zealand’s new government to ditch its world-first smoking ban were today attacked by health experts. 

The move, to stop children from taking up the habit, was initially introduced by ex-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in 2022. Once implemented next year, anyone born after 2008 would have been banned from ever buying cigarettes.

New Zealand’s new prime minister, Christopher Luxon, said the U-turn would fund tax cuts.

But public health experts said the reversal was ‘extremely concerning’, warning the

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Rishi Sunak announces radical law to ban children aged 14 now from EVER buying cigarettes despite Tory outrage over ‘illiberal’ smoke-free plan

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Rishi Sunak today formally announced bold plans to ban today’s children from ever being able to buy cigarettes, despite a Tory revolt over his ‘illiberal’ smoke-free ambition. 

If the law is eventually given the go ahead, kids born after 2009 will never legally be able to buy tobacco.

The Prime Minister has argued he is building ‘a better future for our children’. Health campaigners, experts and charities have all commended the move, described as the ‘biggest public health intervention in

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Rishi Sunak unveils crackdown on ‘worrying’ child vaping epidemic and announces kids aged 14 and under will NEVER be able to buy cigarettes under new ban

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Rishi Sunak today unveiled bold plans to stamp out the child vaping epidemic and ban kids aged 14 and under from ever legally being able to buy cigarettes. 

The proposed law will annually raise the age of legal purchase of tobacco from the current 18 by one additional year every 12 months.

It will see England follow in the footsteps of New Zealand, which last year adopted the same policy for everyone born after 2009. Under the Prime Minister’s proposed

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Children could be banned from buying cigarettes for LIFE under radical plans

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Children should be banned from ever being able to buy cigarettes and smoking in pub gardens should be made illegal, according to radical ‘nanny-state’ recommendations unveiled today.

The age limit for purchasing cigarettes in England, currently set at 18, should rise by 12 months every year until no one can legally buy a tobacco product, the Government-commissioned review set out.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid tasked former children’s charity chief Javed Khan with finding ways England could be smoke-free by 2030 

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