Youngsters who break new smoking ban face on-the-spot fines

Council officers to be given power to issue fines in tobacco and vapes bill that will ban future generations from smoking

Powers to issue £100 on-the-spot fines are to be handed to council officers enforcing a landmark law banning future generations from smoking, which Rishi Sunak has hailed as a chance to “save thousands of lives and billions of pounds”.

The prime minister’s plan will raise the legal age of smoking every year by a year across the UK so that eventually no one will be able to buy tobacco.