UK passes law banning young people from smoking

With 383 votes in favor and 67 votes against, the British House of Commons passed a bill to prevent young people from smoking.

Cancer Research UK has backed Chancellor Rishi Sunak's proposed youth smoking ban. Photo: ALAMY LIVE NEWS

Once passed, the new law will ban the sale of cigarettes to people born after January 1, 2009, and will raise the smoking age by one year each year until it applies to the entire population. This is considered one of the strictest tobacco ban plans in the world today.

However, some British MPs have expressed concern that the new law risks creating a black market and creating unmanageable challenges. Polls show that about two-thirds of Britons support a phased smoking ban.

According to official statistics, around 6.4 million people in the UK, equivalent to 13% of the country's adult population, smoke. Smoking is responsible for a quarter of all cancer deaths, with 64,000 deaths a year in the UK.

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