MPs Back New Smoking Age Limit

The Wimbledon Guardian reports that all three Wandsworth MPs support the new law which will raise the minimum age for buying tobacco from 16 to 18. Martin Linton is quoted as saying:

I'm not under the illusion that banning cigarette sales to children will automatically stop them smoking, but it will make it more difficult and the fact is it's smokers who take it up in their early or mid-teens who are the most likely to die of lung cancer.

It's also very difficult for shopkeepers when the age for alcohol is 18 and the age for tobacco is 16.

It'll be far easier to apply a single age limit. They already do this in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the US and it's high time we did it.