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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Patrick Daly

England’s smoking phase-out ‘unchanged’ as New Zealand ‘will repeal law’

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Downing Street said the Prime Minister’s crackdown on cigarettes remains “unchanged” after reports New Zealand will rescind its own anti-smoking laws.

Rishi Sunak’s announcement at the Conservative Party conference last month that he would effectively outlaw smoking among younger generations, was seen as having been inspired by former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern’s government doing something similar.

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