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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

Health charities welcome Sunak’s plan to curb smoking in England

A cigarette burning on an ashtray
Under the plan, everyone who is 14 or younger today will not legally be able to buy cigarettes ever during their lives. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Banning growing numbers of people in England from buying cigarettes is a bold move that will save lives and create the country’s first “smoke-free generation”, health charities have said.

The plan, first reported in the Guardian and which Rishi Sunak formally unveiled in his leader’s speech at the Conservative party’s annual conference, will also help relieve the strain on the NHS, given that smoking causes so much ill-health, experts said.

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