New Zealand smoking ban

Born after 2008? You'll never be able to buy cigarettes in New Zealand. New Zealand on Tuesday passed a ban on the sale of smoked tobacco products to anyone ...

In 2011, the government pledged to reduce smoking to under 5 percent of the population by 2025. Less nicotine can make smoking less satisfying to some, and that “dramatically improves the quit rate,” he said. Bhutan passed a sweeping ban on tobacco products in 2010, but an underground market began flourishing there and the government temporarily lifted its ban during the first year of the pandemic. Under the new changes, retailers who sell tobacco to anyone born on or after Jan. The generational ban on tobacco sales also may not be the most important part of the new laws, Wilson added. 1, 2009, furthering an ambitious plan to create a smoke-free nation that could pave the way for similar policies elsewhere in the world.

New Zealand plans to become “smoke-free” by 2025. As part of that effort legislation was passed to make it illegal for future generations to buy tobacco.

Around eight percent of the nation’s 5.1 million people smoke compared to 25 percent in France. The new legislation doesn’t cover vaping though which is gaining in popularity. ACT New Zealand, a right-wing, classical-liberal party, which holds ten out 120 seats, decried the law as bad for small businesses and that it would send people to search for tobacco on the black market. New Zealand’s parliament passed one of the strictest laws in the world against selling tobacco products. New Zealand plans to become “smoke-free” by 2025. Currently there are 6,000 establishments that can sell tobacco which will be reduced to 600 licensed retailers.

New Zealand on Tuesday passed into law a unique plan to phase out tobacco smoking by imposing a lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes.

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To achieve its goal of becoming smoke-free by 2025, New Zealand has passed a bill that bans the sale of tobacco to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009.

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New Zealand passed a law on Tuesday to set a lifetime ban on buying cigarettes for any person born after January 1, 2009.

Or you may create one on the Disqus system. Smoking rates remain higher among the indigenous Māori in New Zealand, with about 20 percent reporting they smoked. The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD, said the number of adult New Zealanders smoking fell by half over the past 10 years to eight percent. New Zealand has one of the lowest adult smoking rates among developed countries. The law reduces the number of shops that can sell tobacco products from about 6,000 to 600. Those who violate the law could face fines of up to $95,000.