 Islanders trying to stop smoking will receive financial help |
Jersey residents are to be barred from buying cigarettes until they are 18-years-old under an anti-smoking strategy approved by island politicians. Tobacco adverts will also be banned and people will not be able to smoke in public eating places.
Jersey's health authorities believe 200 islanders die each year from smoking-related illnesses.
They believe the new measures will reduce the harm tobacco does to individual smokers and society generally.
States members, who agreed to the measures on Tuesday, could have gone as far as banning people from smoking in places where alcohol is served.
That would have made pubs and nightclubs smoke-free zones. But that was a step too far for many politicians.
Measures agreed in the strategy include putting up the legal age people can buy cigarettes from 16 to 18 and increasing the price of cigarettes above inflation.
Islanders trying to stop smoking will also receive financial help so they can buy nicotine patches to reduce their addiction.
Warnings on cigarette packets will be changed in future.
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