Posted on 12/14/2022 6:33:59 AM PST by RandFan
New Zealand on Tuesday passed extensive legislation aimed at preventing minors from becoming smokers, including a lifetime prohibition on cigarette sales to everyone born after 2008.
Under the new laws, which take effect next year, the country’s smoking age of 18 would be raised year by year until it applied to the whole population. Beginning in 2023, those under 15 would be barred from buying cigarettes for the rest of their lives.
The legislation is the result of more than a decade of public health campaigns. In 2011, New Zealand first announced its plans to reduce smoking levels to below 5 percent of the population by 2025, a target extending across all ethnic groups, including Indigenous Maori and Pacific Island citizens. Over the years, the price of cigarettes has been hiked to among the highest in the world, with a pack of cigarettes costing about $20.
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Well, at least they are serious about banning smoking and not just making money off the taxes.
>> Yes because prohibition works...... <<
Well, banning it only among those people who are unlikely to have already become addicted and who are easily identified may be a little too authoritarian, but it’s at least an interesting strategy. It’s just hard to take seriously from the same political party which tries so hard to legalize marijuana. And of course, just like “medical” marijuana, it’s hard to CONDITIONALLY prohibit anything.
Socialists always make more money off of contraband than taxes.
And we know how well that works.
I’m sure all cannabis products are exempted?
I quit smoking decades ago, but I enjoyed Canadian cigarettes because they bought Virginia tobacco, made cigs without the additives, and sold it back to us at a premium.
http://teara.govt.nz/en/hops-tobacco-and-hemp/page-2:
“The last commercial tobacco crop was planted in 1995.”
http://growingnz.weebly.com/when.html:
“Yes it is legal to grow tobacco in New Zealand for your own personal use.
It is not legal to sell, barter or give away plants or leaves; green or processed. It is legal to sell seeds.”
Thus, you have only yourself to blame for lung and throat cancer. My uncle died of those plus liver cancer from being an alcoholic. He didn’t get to enjoy his $10k per month take-home money for long.
What about travelers visiting for some time. They prohibited as well?
No tobacco, booze, or drugs for me.
I’m training for old people track and field.
In my younger days, I had some smokes and a whole lot of “Grandpa’s cough medicine”…
And this will of course require a new government law enforcement agency.
Drank like a fish, smoked like a chimney when I was in my 20s. Some habits are better left to the young.
Where’s the “my body, my choice” hypocrites?
https://www.police.govt.nz/advice-services/drugs-and-alcohol/cannabis-and-law
My knees no longer permit jogging. Trying to screw up the courage to mountain bike the same areas I used to run. A guy I went to high school with got into a minor bike accident, broke his ankle, ended up getting a MeRSA infection (a given, with invasive work at the local hospital) and lost a lot of muscle in that leg. Getting old sucks bad enough with two good legs.
I think you missed the gist of the story. NZ is banning tobacco sales to anyone born after 2008. Period.
Which means that every year the age limit to buy tobacco products will be raised, so that if you were born after 2008 you will NEVER be able to buy tobacco products in your lifetime.
I’m in a relatively populated area, so I never bike on the roads.
Have you thought of swimming and intervals on a stationary bike/spin bike?
If you like outdoors, there’s always hiking.
Most here don’t like it, but yoga has helped me with joint and flexibility issues.
Why would smuggling cigs be a business? When your older sibling/parent can just buy them for you? Just don’t get caught smoking like in high school!
New Zealand is going full ret**d. This will never stand in the long term. The pendulum always swings back.
Battery is the physical contact.
IF your purpose is to ban an addictive potentially harmful product, this is the way to do it.
Having said that, it seems there are too many people who have nothing better to do than interfere in other people’s lives...
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