UK plans to pass law banning anyone born after 2008 to buy cigarettes

I am a walking contradiction I accept it. I’m very much a live and let live type of person, people should be able to do whatever they want to do. I also believe smoking is just about the dumbest thing ever invented and wish it would just be stopped, period. But to have faith in the uk government to handle anything other than a bribe with intelligence is even more dumb