Posted on 12/13/2022 10:49:32 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand on Tuesday passed into law a unique plan to phase out tobacco smoking by imposing a lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes.
The law states that tobacco can’t ever be sold to anybody born on or after Jan. 1, 2009.
It means the minimum age for buying cigarettes will keep going up and up. In theory, somebody trying to buy a pack of cigarettes 50 years from now would need ID to show they were at least 63 years old.
But health authorities hope smoking will fade away well before then. They have a stated goal of making New Zealand smoke-free by 2025.
The new law also reduces the number of retailers allowed to sell tobacco from about 6,000 to 600 and decreases the amount of nicotine allowed in tobacco that is smoked.
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AMEN!!
Interesting how so many beautiful places--California, Colorado, Washington, DC, Hawaii--have ugly governments.
“But they make you a criminal, so it matters.”
If the cops want to try arresting every smoker, let them try. I’d rather have that then this quasilegal limbo we’re stuck in right now where everyone treats me like a criminal but still wants my vice tax money to fund their pet projects.
SCHWAB brags that he controls Canada and NZ; just practice for the larger countries!
Cigs won’t kill them but the mandatory “Vaccine” jabs will kill them all.
Covid led to the first increase in cigarette smoking rates since the mid 1960s.
A lot of young people I work with vape.
I try to lightheartedly point out that vaping is for beta cuck soyboys. Real men smoke Marlboros.
I do my part to influence the youth.
Too bad they couldn’t ban street drugs as well - but then they wouldn’t get their cut!
“Real men smoke Marlboros.”
Nah, Camel non-filtered.
People want what is forbidden.
Maybe they should forbid the Covid shots? /LOL …. Twas a joke
Kools non-filtered the real test
All this will do is create a brisk black market in cigs.
The same people that made marijuana legal.
That’s a good way to raise the voting age. It ought to be at least 25.
There's a lot of tobacco nazis here who supported that decision as well as all the anti-tobacco legislation that has come down the pike, and they have successfully chased off the tobacco freedom of choice supporters.
What they have supported in demonizing tobacco users, the same tactic is now being used to attack firearms owners and they're too ignorant to realize it since they're owners and it will never happen to them...........LOL!
vaccines no
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