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New Zealand Bans Cigarette Sales to Everyone Born After 2008
NYT ^ | Dec 14 | By Tiffany May

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nannystate; policestate
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Yes because prohibition works......

Isn't the New Zealand PM that horrible WEF plant? I wonder if this is where this stupid idea came from?

1 posted on 12/14/2022 6:33:59 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

This is my retirement plan, bringing smokes to NZ.


2 posted on 12/14/2022 6:34:58 AM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Not a peep from my fellow libertarians because it’s not pot being banned.


3 posted on 12/14/2022 6:36:22 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: RandFan

But doobies for everyone!


4 posted on 12/14/2022 6:36:31 AM PST by jdsteel (PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke.)
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To: RandFan

A friend of mine retired and moved to Christchurch on the south island of New Zealand. Apparently, NZ taxes money coming in from US pensions at nearly 100%. He is now dismal in NZ.

Should have checked that out first.


5 posted on 12/14/2022 6:37:30 AM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To: RandFan

https://www.geo.tv/latest/441948-prince-william-chooses-jacinda-ardern-for-a-big-event-close-to-his-heart

Willie, your photo-ops with despots and degenerates aren’t doing you any favors...


6 posted on 12/14/2022 6:37:32 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: RandFan

Wonder how they are with chinese fentanyl?


7 posted on 12/14/2022 6:39:32 AM PST by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: Tell It Right

I might bring “assault weapons” as well. I’m not sure what that means though…


8 posted on 12/14/2022 6:40:02 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Kaiser8408a

That seems a lot of tax.

I think like the Netherlands they’re trying out these stupid globalist policies there. The PM was a total lockdown freak if I remember.


9 posted on 12/14/2022 6:40:12 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Big big big Brother.


10 posted on 12/14/2022 6:42:55 AM PST by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: RandFan

Many states in the USA don’t allow it unless 21. So as far as that goes, it’s not too crazy. Unless FReepers don’t want any age limit on tobacco sales?
Me personally? I think 18 is fine, and if you’re in the military, you’re free to smoke and drink if you want.


11 posted on 12/14/2022 6:47:52 AM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: EEGator

Does tobacco grow in NZ?


12 posted on 12/14/2022 6:49:50 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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No clue. Tobacco plants don’t have all those cool additives though.
All I know about NZ is it’s far, rugby, and Lord of the Rings was filmed there…


13 posted on 12/14/2022 6:52:54 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Tell It Right

“Not a peep from my fellow libertarians”

They are busy buying a flotilla to smuggle cigs into New Zealand...

;-)


14 posted on 12/14/2022 6:53:40 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: EEGator

An assault refers to an attempt or threat of violence — not actual violence itself.

For instance, threatening someone with a knife without touching them could be considered an assault.

Therefore, a banana pointed at someone threateningly could be considered an assault weapon.

Let them peel that concept apart.


15 posted on 12/14/2022 6:55:11 AM PST by vg0va3
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To: Kaiser8408a

Hmmm. That has humorous potential. My former liberal Congresscritter (Defazio) has investment homes in NZ. I think his plan was to retire there. Said it reminded him of America in the ‘50s...you know....before liberals destroyed it. He’ll probably split time between the two countries, to minimize his tax burden in both.


16 posted on 12/14/2022 6:55:25 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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17 posted on 12/14/2022 6:56:49 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: RandFan

Smuggling ciggies just became a business...


18 posted on 12/14/2022 6:58:26 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: RandFan

I was born before 2008, so why should I care?

(typical reaction of subjects in the West)


19 posted on 12/14/2022 6:59:12 AM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 11 degrees, brrrr!)
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To: RandFan

I’d say the New Zealand government should be eradicated by it’s citizens... Time for the citizens there to stand up against the tyranny and take their lives back.


20 posted on 12/14/2022 7:00:44 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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