British parliament votes to ban smoking for all people born after 2009

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The British parliament has voted to outlaw smoking for early generations.

The Tobacco and Vapes Bill, introduced and championed by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, is group to prohibition smoking for anyone calved aft 2009.

It overwhelmingly passed a ballot successful nan House of Commons pinch 383 votes to 67 on 

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The U.K. Parliament's House of Commons has voted overwhelmingly successful favour of banning each nicotine products for individuals calved aft 2009. (iStock)

Government officials person boasted that nan measure will nutrient nan U.K.'s first-ever "smoke-free generation."

There is still respective steps to officially passing nan measure into law, including a statement and ballot successful nan precocious enclosure of nan U.K. parliament, nan House of Lords. 

The Conservative Party has seen soul tensions complete nan smoking ban, which galore Tory leaders person claimed is simply a misstep.

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Britain's Prime Minster Rishi Sunak departs 10 Downing Street to spell to nan House of Commons for his play Prime Minister's Questions successful London. (Alastair Grant/AP Photo)

178 Conservative members of parliament voted for nan measure pinch 57 voting against and 106 not signaling a vote.

"When nan statement of Winston Churchill wants to prohibition cigars, donnez-moi un break [give maine a break] arsenic they opportunity successful Quebec, it's conscionable mad," former Prime Minister Boris Johnson said past week astatine a convention successful Canada.

Fellow ex-prime curate Liz Truess echoed Johnson's concerns, saying nan extremity of legislating nan individual decisions of grown men and women was misguided.

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A protester successful Parliament Square holds a placard referencing nan 57 Tories who voted against nan smoking ban.  (Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"It is very important that until group person decision-making capacity while they are increasing up that we protect them," Truess said. "But I deliberation nan full thought that we tin protect adults from themselves is hugely problematic."

Supporters of nan prohibition declare that nan addictive quality of nicotine products takes distant an individual's state to make a free determination astir consuming them.

Timothy Nerozzi is simply a writer for Fox News Digital. You tin travel him connected Twitter @timothynerozzi and tin email him astatine [email protected]

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