The proposal is aimed at stopping people taking up smoking, with Norwegian health experts hoping to stamp out the habit by 2035
Medical chiefs are calling for a complete ban on tobacco sales to anyone born after the year 2000.
The controversial proposal, in Norway, is backed by six out of ten people in the wealthy Scandinavian country.
Norwegian Medical Association president Marit Hermansen said: “It is not a basic human right to begin using tobacco.
“We have long had the policy of phasing out smoking by 2035. This is a measure to achieve this goal.
“It shouldn’t be forbidden to smoke, but we want young people to not get started with tobacco.”
But while the majority of Norwegians agree the NMA, Health Minister Bent Hoie told the Aftenposten newspaper that the government currently has no plans to take up any legislation that would lead to a ban of tobacco sales.
In Britain, new rules banning e-cigarette advertising and ordering that all cigarettes are sold in plain packets come into force in May.
But tobacconists have a year’s grace period to sell their old stock.
Then by 2020, packs of ten cigarettes and menthol cigarettes will be banned and rolling tobacco must come in at least 30g packs.
They form part of the EU ’s aim to slash the number of smokers across Europe by 2.4 million and combat an estimated 700,000 premature deaths caused each year by
tobacco.