Plans to increase the minimum age to buy cigarettes from 18 to 21 in the UK could be announced by the end of this year.
Liz Truss' government have reaffirmed their commitment to plans to make Britain smoke free by 2030. Under Boris Johnson, a report was promised to be published detailing policies that would be introduced to make Britain smoke free, but the new Health Secretary Thérèse Coffey cast doubt on these plans earlier this week.
Increasing the minimum age to buy cigarettes would allow people over 21 to continue to purchase cigarettes and be encouraged to quit by other methods, while hopefully reducing the number of young people from getting addicted in first place.
