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Mps will debate legislation shortly which would give the uk some of the strictest anti tobacco laws in the world. The new laws would raise the minimum age for smoking by one year every year. That means it would be illegal for anyone currently 15 or younger born afterjanuary 1st 2009 to ever buy tobacco products. The department for health says smoking kills about 80,000 people a year and costs £17 billion a year in treating smoking related illnesses and through lost productivity. The tobacco and vapes bill also aims to make vapes less appealing to children. But a number of conservative mps hav...

Of yeltsin's problems. >> yeltsin needed to come up with somebody who could succeed in becoming president and then pardon him as the first activist presidency so that yeltsin wouldn't end up facing criminal liability. >> a decisive man, a man who knew how to manipulate power. vladimir putin. >> in august 1999 yeltsin appointed 46-year-old vladimir putin prime minister of the russian federation and endorsed him for the presidency. but yeltsin's plan for his new prime minister to become president and then pardon him soon looked like it would backfire. >> translator: and i remember how the parlia...

Yeltszen and the family. >> but putsen could not fix all of yeltsen's problems. >> yeltsin wouldn't end up facing criminal liability. >> decisive man, man who knew how to manipulate power, vladimir putin. >> in august 1999, yeltsin appointed 46-year-old vladimir putin prime minister of the russian federation. and endorsed him for the presidency. but yeltsin's plan for his new prime minister to become president and then pardon him soon looked like it would back-fire. >> and i remember how the parliament was laughing. they were quite happy actually. and very pleased. and that's why they voted fo...

Someone who could be trusted to protect yeltsen and the family. >> but putin could not fix all of yetten's problems. >> yetten needed to come up with somebody who could succeed in becoming president and then pardon him as the first act of his presidency so that yetten wouldn't end up facing criminal liability. >> a decisive man, a man who knew how to manipulate power, vladimir putin. >> in august 1999 yeltsen appointed 46-year-old vladimir putin prime minister of the russian federation and endorsed him for the presidency. but yeltsen's plan for his new prime minister to become president and th...

Russia's rtr state tv network and ended scotov's career. >> he showed he swas someone who could be trusted to protect yeltszen and the family. >> but putsen could not fix all of yeltsen's problems. >> yeltsin wouldn't end up facing criminal liability. >> decisive man, man who knew how to manipulate power, vladimir putin. >> in august 1999, yeltsin appointed 46-year-old vladimir putin prime minister of the russian federation. and endorsed him for the presidency. but yeltsin's plan for his new prime minister to become president and then pardon him soon looked like it would back-fire. >> and i re...