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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Andrew Gregory Health editor

Health leaders hail Labour’s plans to phase out smoking as ‘gamechanging’

People vaping on Oxford Street in London
The tobacco and vapes bill will progressively increase the age at which people can buy tobacco so that future generations will never legally be able to do so. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer

The government’s plans to introduce the world’s first full smoking ban, halt sales of energy drinks to children and modernise mental health laws are “gamechanging” and will save thousands of lives, health leaders have said.

Labour will also impose restrictions on the sale and marketing of vapes to children and launch a crackdown on junk food advertising in a drive to improve the health of future generations.

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