Smoking ban for under-18s

December 4, 2005

The minimum age for buying tobacco is to be raised from 16 to 18 in an effort to cut the number of teenage smokers, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.

The measure to place cigarettes on the same legal footing as alcohol will affect hundreds of thousands of smokers: up to 60 per cent of 16-year-olds are estimated to have tried cigarettes.

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Children die as winter snow sweeps quake valleys

misery multiplies

As temperatures plummet in the foothills of the Himalayas, Dan McDougall reports on the misery of Pakistani Kashmir, where cold and disease are multiplying the woes of the disaster’s survivors:

“Here and there, beneath the snowline, painted white stones spell out ‘H’s, where villagers improvised helipads. The helicopters never came. As they always suspected, they will have to rely on their own wits to survive.”

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