What to Know About the U.K.’s Generational Smoking Ban

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This may be the last year in the U.K. that an 18-year-old can, on their birthday, buy a pack of cigarettes. For anyone whose 18th birthday comes in 2027 or later, the government is set to pass a law banning them from ever buying tobacco products in an effort to create a “smoke-free” generation. Both the Houses of Commons and Lords in the U.K. Parliament earlier this week signed off on final amendments to the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, which aims to prevent anyone born in 2009 or younger from