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Briefing: Crib sheet - The sale of tobacco

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The Department of Health is consulting on raising the age at which cigarettes can be legally bought in order to curb smoking rates.

You're looking a bit green - are you okay? I just shared smoking spacewith what looked like an 11-year-old boy.

Did you tell him smoking is bad for him? That's a difficult message toconvey with a cigarette in your mouth. The Department of Health isconsulting on whether to raise the age at which young people can buy -if not use - tobacco.

In the hope that it stops young people from smoking? It's part of apackage of policies that the Government has been developing since thepublication of the white paper Smoking Kills in 1998. The Government hasa six-strand tobacco control programme and this development forms partof its attempts to reduce the availability of tobacco products andregulate supply. As the consultation paper recognises, most habitualadult smokers started smoking as teenagers - 38 per cent before the ageof 16. And 16 is the current legal age below which retailers are notsupposed to sell tobacco products.

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