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The All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health has recommended raising the age as part of tougher UK regulations to protect young as well as helping smokers quit.
MPs have called for a consultation on raising the age of sale of cigarettes to 21 to end the “tobacco epidemic” by 2030.
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health has recommended raising the age of sale from 18 to 21 as part of tougher tobacco regulations to protect children and young people from becoming smokers and help smokers quit.
The recommendations, backed by health charities and medical organisations, also include a “polluter pays” amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill to secure funding for a tobacco control programme, forcing manufacturers to pay to deliver the end of smoking.
The cross-party group of MPs and peers has warned the Government that it can only build back “better and fairer” from the pandemic by making smoking obsolete and must commit now to the actions needed to secure its vision of a Smokefree 2030.
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Strong lungs are critical to good health. The risks of Covid-19 infections and the severity the disease can have on the respiratory tract intensified the focus on proper lung health.