Creating a smoke free generation.
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buying cigarettes is to become illegal for anyone born after 2009.
For their whole life, lawmakers in the UK have approved a government plan to create a smoke free generation.
The law will make the sale of tobacco products, but not the act of smoking.
Illegal tobacco use is the UK's single biggest preventable cause of death, killing 80,000 people every year.
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This is from the Financial Times.
Rishi Sunak faces Tory backlash against long term smoking ban.