Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has an ambitious plan to ban smoking. But as Holly Thomas notes, Boris Johnson isn’t the only Conservative raising eyebrows.
Last week, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson treated a Canadian crowd to a helping of his signature bombast. “The party of Winston Churchill wants to ban ?” he moaned. “Donnez-moi un break, as they say in Quebec. It’s just mad.” The source of his ire was the proposed UK smoking ban, which was spearheaded by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at last October’s Conservative Party Conference and underwent its second reading in the House of Commons on Tuesday evening.
The UK’s 2007 ban on smoking indoors in public places was impactful partly because it vastly reduced children’s exposure to second-hand smoke, a cause even the most committed smoker could get behind. It’s one thing to puff away on the street, another to do so in a crowded restaurant almost directly into growing lungs. Then, there’s the question of money.
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