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It is therefore apparently the Government’s own assessment that an increase in the minimum legal age of purchase for tobacco from 18 to 21 would have the same impact as the generational ban with respect to reducing youth uptake of smoking. If the outcome remains the same, it begs the question: why not adopt the proven and straightforward policy approach of implementing a ban at the age of 21? After all, increasing the minimum purchase age to 21 has been adopted, or is in the process of being adopted, in the United States, Singapore, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Ethiopia, Honduras, Samoa, Uganda—the list goes on.