{"id":459100,"date":"2026-04-29T05:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/459100\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T05:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:14:23","slug":"watch-londoners-share-views-on-uk-smoking-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/459100\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Londoners share views on UK smoking ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A UK ban on future generations buying cigarettes will come into law this week.<\/p>\n<p>The Tobacco and Vapes Bill, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/uk\/2026\/0423\/1569744-uk-smoking-ban\/#:~:text=The%20UK%20has%20approved%20a,17)%20from%20taking%20up%20smoking.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which introduces a rolling age restriction permanently barring<\/a> anyone born on or after January 1, 2009 from legally buying cigarettes, was approved last week.<\/p>\n<p>The law will also tighten rules on vaping and other nicotine products, particularly around marketing and display.<\/p>\n<p>In London, people had mixed views on whether or not they think it will make a difference.<\/p>\n<p><b>Watch the video to hear what they had to say.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A UK ban on future generations buying cigarettes will come into law this week. The Tobacco and Vapes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-459100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116486292402852760","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}