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This is what\u2019s described as an \u201cendgame\u201d approach. While many tobacco control strategies\u2014such as taxation or gory imagery\u2014aim to reduce consumption, policies like the UK\u2019s are designed to eliminate it entirely<\/em>. It\u2019s a new approach, and no one knows whether it will work.<\/p>\n The Maldives was\u00a0the first country to implement a generational smoking ban, in November last year. It\u2019s too soon to say how that has panned out.<\/p>\n Nor do we know if these laws will even last. In 2022, New Zealand passed a similar generational sales ban as part of a broader anti-smoking law. But it was never enacted\u2014the law was repealed by a new government in February 2024.<\/p>\n In the UK, both major parties support the ban. But Nigel Farage, whose right-wing party has seen a recent surge in support, has\u00a0promised that \u201cthe generational smoking ban will not last long if Reform gets the chance to start rebuilding our mismanaged country.\u201d<\/p>\n Chris Bostic, an attorney and former policy director for the advocacy group Action on Smoking and Health, says he and his colleagues began promoting the idea of a generational ban in the United States 11 years ago. Back then, they struggled to win support, even from major health charities. \u201cPeople said we were crazy \u2026 [and] that this was impossible,\u201d he says. Opponents argued that bans would infringe on personal freedoms.<\/p>\n \u201cThe public health argument is: Well, what about freedom from addiction?\u201d says Britta Matthes, a tobacco control researcher at the University of Bath in the UK. Most people who smoke began when they were teenagers,\u00a0want to quit, and\u00a0wish they\u2019d never started. Tobacco is arguably the most harmful consumer product of all time. It will kill half its users who don\u2019t quit,\u00a0according to the\u00a0World Health Organization.<\/p>\n It also kills people who don\u2019t smoke. Of the 7 million who die from tobacco every year, 1.6 million are nonsmokers who were exposed to secondhand smoke,\u00a0according to the\u00a0WHO.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n #UKs #generational #tobacco #ban #work #supporting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is what\u2019s described as an \u201cendgame\u201d approach. 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