New Zealand unveils plan to ban young people from ever buying cigarettes

The government has pledged to "significantly" reduce shops that can sell smokes, "especially in low-income communities", believing smoking to be a key factor in life expectancy gaps.

Dr Verrall said non-Maori live on average eight years longer than Maori New Zealanders, and 2.5 years of that gap was attributed to smoking. "We want to make sure young people never start smoking ... if nothing changes it would be decades till Maori smoking rates fall below five per cent, and this government is not prepared to leave people behind," she said.The Smokefree 2025 goalwas adopted in 2012 under John Key's National government, though the current opposition is yet to reveal whether it supports the plans.

Like many countries, NZ has adopted a number of health measures to curb smoking rates, including tax hikes, advertising bans and anti-smoking campaigns.At the turn of the century, one-in-four New Zealanders smoked. That fell by half to one-in-six by 2012, when the Smokefree 2025 goal was adopted, and again to one-in-eight by 2019.Speaking across Wellington later on Thursday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern put the need for an action plan into context.9 December 2021 at 2:04pm

That's so bizarre, good luck to them

Ban smoking will save taxpayers $billions in hospital funding ?

Yeah because Prohibition has worked like everywhere! Keep the injecting rooms though?

Ban them from sheep also

Rashidajourno That’s a great idea. Not banning them as such but phasing them out over many decades by not letting the new generations get addicted. A few will but the percentage will be minuscule

I love this idea! Kiwis always ahead of the game!!

They have banned future generations from home ownership so banning smoking is easy

Next it’s alcohol. Then sugar. Then late nights out. Then laughter.

For all the smokers protesting their right to chose - do they have choice now? I like to see one smoker that will chose not to smoke for a month or more....or longer. For most even day is too long, not even a week ;-P

I'm sure lot of people will object that, but not many of those born after 2011. Hopefully they will not get hooked on this nasty addiction like proceeding generations.

SBS Watch Australia follow this BS. Everyone is whinging about 'freedom of choice' regarding the vaccines, what about freedom of choice to be able to smoke? You have to be an adult to purchase them (18) so as an adult you can make your own decisions.

Then they will ban that deadly life destroying chemical alcohol

Wow, what an amazing idea that hasn't completely failed before and created a new problem that's resulted on a stupid amount of taxpayer money being wasted to 'get rid of the problem'.

Welcome to South China

Next they will keep track of you alcohol consumption. Social credit system

This will most definitely, absolutely, totally, most assuredly work, very well, without any issues, whatsoever, nope, no problems foreseeable in the future will this cause, at all.

Create another illegal drug. Great job, it's worked so far on the 'War on drugs'

Kiwis leading the way again!!

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