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Creating a smoke free generation.
This is news review from BBC Learning English, where we help you understand news headlines in English.
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And I'm Beth.
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Now the story 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.
You've been looking at the headlines, Beth.
What's the vocabulary?
People need to understand this story in English.
We have backlash, derail and nuts.
This is news review from BBC learning English.
Let's have our first headline.
This is from the Financial Times.
Rishi Sunak faces Tory backlash against long term smoking ban.
Okay, so this headline says that Rishi Sunak, who is the prime minister of the United Kingdom, is facing a backlash from members of his own party.
That's the Tory party.