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Plans to raise the minimum legal age for smoking to 21 years

Geoff Riley

8th June 2022

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Should the minimum legal age for buying cigarettes be raised to twenty-one years.

The Guardian carries an article that suggests that an independent review of the minimum smoking age is on the point of advocating raising the minimum age to 21, along with adopting other parts of New Zealand's radical anti-smoking agenda.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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