A health policy we can all agree with
alexanderbaker Mon Jan 01, 2007 at 11:29:18 AM GMT 
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New Year is a time to make changes for the better. The government's decision to raise the legal age of buying tobacco to 18 should be a welcome New Year's resolution.
I've just read this story on BBC News Online which describes how the government will - from October - raise the legal minimum age at which one is allowed to purchase tobacco from 16 to 18.
I think this is fantastic news. Smoking should be discouraged where possible, and especially amongst the young.
I accept as legitimate the concerns of some about the extent to which this policy can be a useful cessation tool, but set in a broader anti-smoking policy agenda I'm of the opinion that this is a move in the right direction.
Perhaps it would be too rash to suggest that this is a health policy we can all* agree with? - I certainly hope not.
*Excepting, of course, those 16 and 17 year olds who will no longer be permitted to purchase tobacco legally.
A health policy we can all agree with | 3 comments (3 topical)
A health policy we can all agree with | 3 comments (3 topical)
