Success of smoking age limit to be examined

Wednesday 7th December 2005, 12:00AM GMT.

TEENAGERS will be surveyed in the New Year about whether raising the minimum smoking age to 18 has been a success.

The minimum age to buy cigarettes was raised by the Tobacco Strategy in November last year, and Health Promotion say their two-yearly survey of young people next scheduled for February will reveal what kind of impact the move has had.

The UK Health Secretary, Patricia Hewitt MP, is considering following the lead set by Guernsey in 1997, and Jersey in 2004, by raising the minimum age of buying cigarettes to 18.

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