New Zealand plans to make it illegal to sell cigarettes to anyone aged 14 and under from 2027

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New Zealand plans to make it illegal to sell cigarettes to anyone aged 14 and under from 2027, and the ban will remain in place for the rest of the person’s life in the country
 
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Source: Reuters on Twitter, 9/12/2021

New Zealand  on Thursday said it will ban young people from buying cigarettes for life, one of the toughest approaches in the world to curbing smoking deaths as part of a wider plan that focuses on the disproportionate impact on its indigenous Maori population.

New Zealand is already one of 17 countries where plain cigarette packaging is compulsory.

It also bans sales to anyone under 18, but those measures are not enough to reach its goal of a national adult smoking rate of less than 5% by  2025.

New Zealand plans to make it illegal to sell cigarettes to anyone aged 14 and under from 2027.  The ban will remain in place for the rest of the person’s life.
That means a person aged 60 in 2073 will be banned from buying cigarettes, while a person aged 61 would be allowed to do so.

Under the proposed legislation, which the  New Zealand government plans to bring into law by the end of  2022, it will first limit the number of stores that can sell cigarettes from 2024.

It is  also planed  to  lower the level of nicotine  in cigarettes from 2025.

 

 

 

Last Updated on 09.12.2021 by iskova