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Can the UK create a generation of nonsmokers?

Charlotte Chelsom-Pill in London
May 9, 2025

The UK parliament is debating one of the strictest anti-smoking laws in the world: anyone born in 2009 or later would be prohibited from legally buying tobacco products, thereby creating, lawmakers hope, a generation of nonsmokers. Will it work?

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