Menthol and other flavoured cigarettes are banned in the UK from today, May 20. The ban applies to menthol cigarettes, menthol rallies, skinny cigarettes and click-dual cigarettes.
Over the past years smokers have endured many changes to legislation in the UK. For example, in 2007 a smoking ban meant that people could no longer smoke in enclosed public spaces.
The same year the legal age to buy cigarettes was raised from 16 to 18. Now the UK government has introduced a new change to the law, meaning smokers can no longer buy menthol cigarettes.
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) has said that “no person may produce or supply a cigarette or hand rolling tobacco with a filter, paper, package, capsule or other component containing