[Levin]

09 Dec 2021 11:23AM
(Updated: 09 Dec 2021 11:23AM)


The New Zealand government plans to ban young people from ever buying cigarettes in their lifetime in one of the world's toughest crackdowns on the tobacco industry, arguing that other efforts to extinguish smoking were taking too long.

People aged 14 in 2027, when the law is scheduled to come into effect, will never be allowed to legally purchase cigarettes in the Pacific country of five million, while the level of nicotine in all cigaretttes on sale will be reduced.


https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/ne...ne-2368426

[Sticw]

Singapore HSA HPB and MOH should outdo NZ! Immediate start the reduction of nicotine with a 30% cut per annum, so in 3 year's time most people can kick the smoking habit for good!

Oops... But will be a big blow to the govt income...

[starbugs]

It sounds like a good idea, but how about tourists? The thing about smokers is that most of them will never be able to quit, so a black market will form or the young just ask the old to buy cigarettes of their behalf. Worst case, the brain drain from NZ to AU will accelerate among the young. The way to hell is paved with good intentions.