Lifestyle Economics

Raising the legal age of sale of tobacco to 21 a ‘move towards prohibition’


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Prof. Len Shackleton writes for The Critic

In the Media

Christopher Snowdon quoted in Sky News article

Christopher Snowdon quoted in the Yorkshire Times

IEA Head of Lifestyle Economics Christopher Snowdon was quoted in the Yorkshire Times arguing that plans to raise the legal age of sale of tobacco to 21 was a “move towards prohibition“.

Christopher said: “Cigarettes are a legal product available to adults which, in the UK, means people aged 18 or over. If this All-Party Parliamentary Group and its friends at Action on Smoking and Health believe the age of consent should be higher, it should lobby to raise the voting age to 21“.

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