{"id":28082,"date":"2024-04-16T20:21:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T20:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/is-banning-smoking-unconservative\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T20:21:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T20:21:49","slug":"is-banning-smoking-unconservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/is-banning-smoking-unconservative\/","title":{"rendered":"Is banning smoking &#8216;unconservative&#8217;?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/e3.365dm.com\/24\/04\/1920x1080\/2372404160688855907_6523158.png?20240416115149&amp;fit=1920,1080&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Is banning smoking &#8216;unconservative&#8217;?\u00a0\" title=\"Is banning smoking &#8216;unconservative&#8217;?\u00a0\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>&#8220;Absolutely nuts&#8221; was how Boris Johnson, the former prime minister, described Rishi Sunak&#8217;s plan to gradually phase out smoking &#8211; banning anyone born since the start of 2009\u00a0from ever being able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products like vapes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Liz Truss, who was also briefly prime minister in between the two men, is also among some critical of the proposal &#8211; which she described as &#8220;profoundly unconservative&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Tories are being given a free vote in the Commons &#8211; allowing them to vote with their conscience, not necessarily the government.<\/p>\n<p>But will the policy create a smoke-free generation? And what will it mean for Conservative Party ideology?<\/p>\n<p>Niall Paterson looks at the health implications with Alice Wiseman, vice president of The Association of Directors of Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>He also examines the politics of the policy with Sky&#8217;s political editor Beth Rigby and Tory peer Lord Frost, who disagrees with the planned legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/podfollow.com\/skynewsdaily\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen above then tap here to follow the Sky News Daily wherever you get your podcasts<\/a><\/strong> \ud83d\udc48<\/p>\n<p><strong>Producer:<\/strong> Emma Rae Woodhouse<br \/><strong>Podcast Promotions Producer:<\/strong> Iona Brunker<br \/><strong>Senior producer:<\/strong> Annie Joyce<br \/><strong>Editors:<\/strong> Philly Beaumont and Paul Stanworth<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/is-banning-smoking-unconservative160-13116462\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Absolutely nuts&#8221; was how Boris Johnson, the former prime minister, described Rishi Sunak&#8217;s plan to gradually phase out smoking &#8211; banning anyone born since the start of 2009\u00a0from ever being able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products like vapes.\u00a0 Liz Truss, who was also briefly prime minister in between the two men, is also among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/24\/04\/1920x1080\/2372404160688855907_6523158.png?20240416115149","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[7775,7002,32731],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28084,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28082\/revisions\/28084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}