The Consumer Choice Center (CCC) condemns Commons’ Vote to Pass the second reading of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill. This legislation, if passed, threatens to reverse years of progress made in reducing tobacco consumption and puts public health at serious risk.

The Tobacco and Vapes Bill will reintroduce Sunak’s measures in prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to any adult born after 2009, as well as tighter restrictions on safer alternatives to combustible tobacco, such as vapes, heaters, and nicotine pouches.

In a statement, Mike Salem, UK Country Associate at the CCC, stated, “These measures are unjust, unworkable and overreaching.

“The last thing we need in the battle to reduce smoking rates is to open an illegal getaway, which now thanks to the generational prohibition, will be easier than ever.”

Ahead of the vote, it was reported that the public is opposed to the prohibition by two to one.

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