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.
Yes and no. Drugs, okay, but not ones which so negatively affect those around users.
So everything legal, just no public use?
That would be a very reasonable solution. Like not being allowed to drink in public. And drinking doesn’t even have secondhand effects …unless a drunk fall on top of you.
Private use still affects others such as the family members.
But there is no guarantee of family being around. Hell I know someone who only smokes before a hunt, mind you its with a pipe and is a family tradition of his but its still smoking. Him smoking in the middle of the woods aint hurten no one.
Not sure what your point is. People do smoke in their homes with family around, and in their cars. This should protect them.
Vaping doesn’t really. I mean, the user’s still got a nicotine addiction, but there isn’t a sidestream smoke issue.
Indeed.