Posted on 12/15/2021 1:51:02 PM PST by srmanuel
Jacinda Ardern the Liberal Progressive darling of New Zealand and her Health Officials who locked down their county like no one else, has a new idea, eliminate smoking for the "public good", the plan calls for not immediately eliminating smoking but stopping young people from ever being old enough to smoke by raising the legal age to purchase cigarettes year after year...while at the same time making cigarettes much harder to purchase for legal smokers....
The lockdowns and been so uniformly adopted around the world this type of thing will only spread, here in the USA we know something about prohibition, it failed miserably, we'll see if New Zealand follows a similar path...
They will get them anyway
Does NZ have the climate and soil to grow tobacco there? Will it be prohibited from doing so?
The day and year will come when ‘the people’ are so old that they vote out this crap. May take a decade or more.
Numeric creep will get ya !
Well, her popularity ratings aren’t any great shakes these days, as per what I read recently. Bet this won’t be a help either.
Of course, this will not create a black market in any way...
The dictators have fully revealed themselves. Have fun with the black market.
Jacinda is worse than that woman from Michigan.
What a control freak. Her little scheme is probably not going to work, at least not as she expects it to work.
When Tourism starts to become effected, she may encounter strong opposition.
It’s interesting that the article also says “or tobacco products,” so it would also apparently include cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff, chew etc.
It sets up a bizarre situation in which, theoretically, 40 years from now, a 55 year-old can buy a box of cigars but the 54 year-old can’t. And if grandpa can buy loose tobacco for his pipe, can it be rolled into cigarettes?
It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out, but it doesn’t take Nostradamus to predict that this law will have some enforcement issues.
There is already talk that Aussies or others will create off-shore tobacco stores on ships just outside the three mile limit.
NZ folks will be able to rent a boat and do a tobacco run and stock up....
Boot on face
Forever
Ban tobacco but ok to smoke pot??
“stopping young people from ever being old enough to smoke by raising the legal age to purchase cigarettes year after year...”
We should do that for voting age and keep dumb kids from voting for corrupt libtards 🤪
They’ve got tyranny on the brain. Only encouraged by the sheep like acceptance of their disarmed serfs.
We were banned up to age 15 years ago ... this isnt new ...
If a shopkeeper sold cigarettes to anyone under the age of 15 they went to jail ...
Kids would get around that by saying their mothers sent them ...
My 12 yo cousin was able to get some by saying that...
I was nine and threw up and the other kids laughed at me ...
The one and only time I ever smoked ...
Yes theyve always grown their own tobacco ...
Eventually that woman from Michigan backed off. No one in New Zealand had stood up to Jacinda. They probably won't. They're all sheep.
From the cartels.
The legal age to purchase cigarettes in New Zealand is 18, but they will start the ban at age 14 and raise the 18 age limit each year by one year so the 14 year olds will never be old enough to purchase cigarettes....
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