[PM Rishi Sunak is considering
introducing some of the world’s toughest
anti-smoking measures that would in
effect ban the next generation from
ever being able to buy cigarettes,
the Guardian has learned.
Whitehall sources said the
prime minister was looking at measures
similar to those brought in by
New Zealand last December.
They involved steadily increasing
the legal smoking age so tobacco
would end up never being sold
to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009.]