A Labour government could introduce a New Zealand-style smoking ban – making it illegal for anyone born after 2008 to buy tobacco.
The Labour party are considering bringing in the ban if elected to govern to help England become smokefree government could introduce a New Zealand-style smoking ban – making it illegal for anyone born after 2008 to buy tobacco.
Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said the party would consult on phasing out the sale of cigarettes.New Zealand is set to implement a new law later this year which stops anyone born after 2008 from buying cigarettes.Mr Streeting says the party is also looking at a range of other measures to make smoking unaffordable and inaccessible.
An independent review, which was published this summer, recommended increasing the legal smoking age by one year every year to improve the country’s health.The new law could stop the next generation from ever taking up smoking Mr Streeting told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg: ‘One of the things that was recommended to the Government in one of the reviews was phasing out the sale of cigarettes altogether over time.‘The New Zealand Government is doing it. We want to see how that works, but I’m genuinely curious.
‘If we are going to get the NHS back on track we also need to focus on public health. And I’m curious to know where the voters are on this, where the country is and what appetite exists for change,’ he said.‘It is going to take time to fix it and fresh radical thinking and that’s what Labour’s about.’
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