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Can Rishi Sunak create a smoke-free generation?

MPs voted this week to ban anyone aged 15 or younger in 2024 from ever buying cigarettes. If the legislation passes and is enacted, it would be a world first. Ben Quinn reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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  Is Labour about to win a local election landslide?

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  Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf resigns

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  Have open marriages gone mainstream?

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  The US college protests and the crackdown on campuses

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  What Ukraine needs to change the course of the war

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  Could a row over a council house bring down Angela Rayner?

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  Sudan’s forgotten war

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  Where does the Cass report leave trans teenagers?

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  The chilling policy to cut Greenland’s high birth rate

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  Liz Truss and her plan to ‘save the west’

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  Is the Middle East on the brink?

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  How Swiss women won a landmark climate case for Europe

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  Carers scandal: why are so many being prosecuted by the UK government?

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  Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump, and the start of the hush money trial

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  Profits over pipes: who should own our water?