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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  1. we have such law in Jordan, but nobody abides by it like most other laws

    Comment by Hareega — December 4, 2005 @ 11:28 PM

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