{"id":542727,"date":"2026-04-21T11:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542727\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:36:08","slug":"smoking-ban-for-people-born-after-2008-in-the-uk-agreed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542727\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Health minister Baroness Merron told the Lords on Monday: &#8220;This afternoon marks the end of this Bill&#8217;s journey throughout Parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is a landmark Bill, it will create a smoke-free generation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is, in fact, the biggest public health intervention in a generation and I can assure all noble Lords it will save lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lord Naseby, a Conservative former MP, said the Tobacco and Vapes Bill &#8220;does upset a great many people in that industry&#8221;, including retailers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;What we really need is a proper understanding of how we educate people not to take up smoking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Responding to Lord Naseby, Lady Merron said: &#8220;I can overall assure Lord Naseby, as I&#8217;ve done on a number of occasions, about how closely we have worked with retailers, and we will continue to do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health minister Baroness Merron told the Lords on Monday: &#8220;This afternoon marks the end of this Bill&#8217;s journey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-542727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}