U.K. votes on ‘smoke-free generation,’ conservatives decry ‘nanny state’

LONDON — Britain is poised to launch a world-leading project to create a “smoke-free generation” by banning the sale of cigarettes to anyone born in 2009 or later. Older smokers would be allowed to continue to buy tobacco until they quit — or die. But the legislation would raise the legal age for purchase each … Read more

Marlboro maker Altria’s guess on smoke-free merchandise

Cigarettes have been as soon as prominently displayed in Hollywood movies and shiny magazines. However many years of proof that smoking kills has brought about consumption to plummet.  The tobacco business bought fewer than 11 billion packs of cigarettes within the U.S. in 2020, down from greater than 21 billion packs 20 years earlier, in keeping with the Facilities for Illness … Read more