Plans to stop anyone aged 14 or younger from ever being able to legally buy cigarettes have been backed by county councillors in Hertfordshire. The Government signalled that it wanted to legislate to make the restriction on sales possible last year. And on Tuesday (February 6) those measures were backed by a meeting of the county council’s public health and community safety cabinet panel. A motion – proposed by executive member for public health and community safety Cllr Morris Bright – noted that smoking was responsible for 64,000 UK deaths a year, with one in four cancer-related deaths attri…