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Smoking: do you back the ban?
MPs will debate Rishi Sunak's tough new anti-smoking laws n Tuesday, which aim to prevent anyone born after January 1st 2009 from being able to legally buy tobacco.
5 Live listeners tell Nicky Campbell what they think.
MPs will debate Rishi Sunak's tough new anti-smoking laws n Tuesday, which aim to prevent anyone born after January 1st 2009 from being able to legally buy tobacco. Tobacco use is the UK's single biggest preventable cause of death, killing two-thirds of long-term users and causing 80,000 deaths every year. The bill has support of Labour and is likely to pass through the Commons despite the objection of some Tory MPs. 5 Live listeners told Nicky Campbell what they thought of the ban.
