UK Bans Cigarette Sales for Future Generations

0:00It's April 23rd. Welcome to California News Today, powered by AI. I'm Corey with the story. UK Parliament just dropped a game changer with the tobacco and vape spill, banning cigarette sales forever to anyone born after December 31st. 2008, the plan raises the legal buying age one year at a time, so most young folks today stay locked out for life. It also hands the government tools to crack down on vapes, nicotine flavors, and packaging. Smoking claims 80,000 lives yearly in the UK, topping the list of preventable killers and wrecking health nationwide. Health leaders hail it as the birth of the first smoke-free generation, shielding kids from addiction's lifelong trap. This puts the UK among the world's strictest on tobacco, echoing New Zealand's short-lived try in 2022, now locked in for the long haul. Toward a cleaner future.