Doctors call for TOTAL ban on cigarettes for anyone born after the year 2000

Doctors call on the BMA to lobby the government for a complete ban via a year-on-year increase in the age limit for cigarettes.

18:05 27 March 2014

In a drive to cut-smoking related deaths and diseases, medical experts are calling for permanent ban on selling cigarettes to anyone born after the year 2000.

The plan is to increase the age limit every year until smoking is completely eliminated in the country. Doctors have asked for the support of British Medical Association to lobby the government to make it happen.

In the UK alone, there are more than 100,000 people that die due to smoking-related diseases every year. These include lung cancer and emphysema.

'Humanity has never developed anything more deadly than the cigarette,' said Tim Crocker-Buqué, a registrar working in Tower Hamlets. 

'The combination of its addictive power and devastating health effects combined with historical social norms and powerful advertising campaigns killed 100million people in the 20th century. 

'The continuing epidemic is predicted to kill hundreds of millions more over the 21st century.'

Senior doctor Mark Temple agreed, saying: 'If we prevent access to a group that is growing older through time then gradually we will stop easy access to tobacco products.'