The New Statesman
•65% Informative
Smoking kills 64,000 people in the UK every year and causes untold harm to thousands of others through ill-health and diseases including stillbirths, lung disease, heart disease, stroke, dementia, and dementia.
Over 80 per cent of smokers started before they turned 20 .
By gradually raising the age of sale of cigarettes, future generations of children and young people will be protected from ever becoming addicted to what we know is a lethal product.
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