Most Britons want legal smoking age to be raised
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Four out of five Britons wanted the legal smoking age to be raised from 16 to 18 years in a bid to deter young people from taking up the habit, the result of a poll suggested Monday.
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The legal age of smoking in Scotland should be raised from 16 to 18, a team of experts will tell ministers.
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England joins on Sunday the growing list of places that ban smoking in public buildings, taxis and other places with a tough law that includes even Buckingham Palace.
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Smokers could be forced to pay Â£10 for a permit to buy tobacco if government health advisers get their way.
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Most smokers in England are respecting the ban on lighting up in enclosed public places, a survey suggests.
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A government minister has told the BBC that some form of ban on smoking could be introduced in England and Wales. Tell us what you think.
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Doctors in Wales call on the assembly government to include hospital grounds in the scope of next year's smoking ban.
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LONDON, Feb. 18 -- Prime Minister Tony Blair announced Sunday that he wanted to lower to 17 the age at which a mandatory five-year sentence could be imposed for illegally possessing a gun. The announcement followed the shooting deaths of three teenagers.
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The Scottish government is to announce plans to increase the age for purchasing tobacco from 16 to 18.
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The majority believed raising the age at which teenagers could buy cigarettes would deter them from taking up the habit, according to an ICM poll commissioned by the BBC.
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Four out of five people want the legal age of smoking raised from 16 to 18, as a way of detering teenagers from taking up cigarettes.
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The majority of people are in favour of the smoking ban due to start on July 1st, figures suggest.
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Four hundred years after King James I denounced tobacco as "loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs," the British government is taking heed. It announced plans Tuesday to ban smoking in most public places, including restaurants and any pub that serves food.
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BMA Cymru Wales is calling on doctors across Wales to write to their members of parliament to support a ban on smoking in public places.
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The British Medical Association (BMA) for Northern Ireland has said the proposals in Tuesdayâs English Public Health White Paper on passive smoking âdo not go far enoughâ.
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Four out of five people want the legal age of smoking raised from 16 to 18, to deter youngsters from taking up the habit, a new report has found.
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As many as 1.2 million smokers in England could try to quit smoking in the New Year, figures suggest.