Whats the legal age to smoke in the UK is it 14 and 16 to buy or 16 to buy and smoke?



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16 years of age
16
In the UK you may smoke at ANY age, but a retailer must not sell them to anyone under 16 (soon being raised to 18)
Despite what owiginalwabbit says you are not allowed to smoke at ny age. You must be 16 to buy and smoke.
There is no legal age to smoke, just to buy them.
You may smoke at any age in the UK, but you must be 16 to buy them. From October 1st the legal age will be 18.

Also there are restricted areas, and you may not smoke in public places.
16 to buy and smoke but some supermarkets have already put the age up to 18 for buying
The rabit type is correct, buy at 16yrs, smoke til you die, any age.
Its 16 and they will raise the age to 18 soon
you are not alowed to smoke under 16 either even if you havn't brought them!
its 16 for both but they're planning to raise it up to 18
According to a September 2006 post by Ash.org, a UK anti-smoking group, the legal age is currently 16, though there is some discussion of raising it:

"Is raising the minimum age from 16 to 18 an appropriate strategy?

5. There is little evidence to show that, as a stand-alone policy, simply raising the legal age for the purchase of tobacco reduces smoking prevalence among young people. Measures that affect the whole population, such as tobacco advertising bans, raising the price of tobacco, etc. are more likely to reduce smoking rates among both adults and young people than a measure that affects only one segment of the population."
The legal (physical) age to buy / smoke is definitely 16. They are now looking at putting this up to 18. The average mental age is a lot younger... They haven't put a limit on that one.
I have seen mammies precious darlings smoking and drinking at 9 yrs of age.Dont tell me that mummy doesnt know and when she is confronted she says well they all do it.But then that does not make it right does it.
12 now as there is a lot of youngsters smoking
The legal age to buy is 16

There is no age limit as to how young one has to be to smoke
There is no legal age to smoke, but to buy them you have to be atleast 16 years of age. Soon probably be increasing to 18.

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