Rishi Sunak's bill aims to create the UK's first smoke-free generation in a major public health intervention.

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.

  • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    7 months ago

    I find the second hand effects argument a difficult one to swallow when we deal with car pollution, industrial waste, microplastics, and so much more on a minute to minute basis.

    ‘Everyone else is hurting you, so it should be okay for me to hurt you, too!’

    It’s 2024, and there are people who unironically think that two wrongs make a right.

    The damage done by secondhand smoking is not an argument, it’s a proven fact. It has been for decades.

    overly clean air

    You think that air can be too clean?

    This reminds me of how smokers will try to exercise, start coughing because their lungs are clogged and trying to process the increase in oxygen, then using that to claim that exercise is bad for you.