• NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.com
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    1 year ago

    I’d say no cause it is on the recommendation of doctors and researchers within the country to him and it’s actually something that will affect people in a positive way supposedly. Now I think he made cuts to healthcare so in that regard yeah it is a little bit of virtue signalling but it’s virtue signalling in a functional way that actually impacts things. Which I think is okay for him to do.

    It commissioned a review, published last June and led by Dr Javed Khan, which made a series of recommendations, including increasing the legal age for buying tobacco.

    He recommended that the age of sale should increase from 18, by one year every year, until no-one can buy a tobacco product.

    Cancer Research UK’s chief executive Michelle Mitchell said: “Raising the age of sale on tobacco products is a critical step on the road to creating the first ever smoke-free generation.”

    But Simon Clark, director of the smokers’ group Forest, said: "Raising the age of sale of tobacco is creeping prohibition, but it won’t stop young people smoking because prohibition doesn’t work.