Posted on 12/13/2022 8:09:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Dec. 13 (UPI) -- The New Zealand Parliament has approved a measure that raises the age in which people can legally purchase tobacco products as part of an ongoing effort to permanently ban cigarette sales and turn a new generation of young people against smoking.
The groundbreaking law, which takes effect on Jan. 1, is thought to be the first time any nation in the world has enacted a measure that would increase the legal age to smoke every year until the entire population phases out. In 2023, tobacco cannot be sold to anyone younger than 14 years old. But in 2024, the legal age will go up to 15, followed by 16 in 2025, and so on.
Lawmakers attached an array of measures to the bill that will significantly raise the cost of cigarettes, lower their nicotine content, and take them out of supermarkets and convenience stores and restrict their availability to places like smoke shops and tobacco stores.
Right now 6,000 stores throughout New Zealand can legally sell cigarettes, but after Jan. 1 only 600 of those outlets will be allowed to have tobacco products on the shelves.
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In 2022 under 14 can legally buy tobacco in NZ?? Crazy
It says, “and so on.”
Does that mean in perpetude?
Yup
Yeah, so if you’re 13 in NZ, you will NEVER be old enough to buy smokes. Crazy.
Why don’t they just outlaw it and get it over with? I am an ex-smoker and am so glad I quit years ago but in a way I don’t believe it is the government’s job to tell people what they can eat and drink or if they can smoke. It is a huge slippery slope. The next step is telling people how much food they can have and what. If the people in NZ don’t want to go down this road, they need to start protesting now or never. They are doing things like that in our USA trying to force people into certain behaviors like not smoking. I think they should either make it illegal or just leave people and their choices alone.
The libtards view on tobacco is weird. I thought they were in favor of population control. You would think they would be giving tobacco away for free.
So when it gets to 70, someone that was 13 at the time of passing, that is now 69, will have to use a fake ID, or get a friend to buy them for him.
NZ is insane! COVID showed me that NZ is the sickest, most mentally ill country on the planet.
I’m going to start illegally bringing smokes into NZ in a decade.
Retirement plan...done.
It's a conundrum for them. I would guess tobacco farmers and cig manufacturers are very much NOT liberal. So the bigger effort is to take money out of their hands.
To save the children, or the climate, or something.
Like the TSA security theater, the COVID lockdowns, etc., it's just another demonstration of the power of the ruling class to do whatever it wants.
Certainly in the Anglosphere, though Australia and Canada are running hard right behind.
Baby steps. They’ll start with fines...set up “fart traps” near Mexican restaurants.
Nice dictatorette you got there Kiwis.
Huge black market in tobacco to commence next year in NZ
Certainly within a decade, when Kiwis will be speaking Mandarin to petition their Government.
So right now you can sell cigarettes to somebody that’s less than 14 years old?
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