New Zealand To Ban Cigarette Sales In An Ambitious Initiative To Make The Nation Smoke Free By 2025

New Zealand is planning to make the nation ‘smoke free’ by 2025 and is considering proposals focused on elimination of smoking in nation. It includes a radical initiative which would ban the sale of tobacco to anyone born after 2004.

Under the country’s Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan, it plans to increase legal smoking age gradually.

Government will also set a minimal cost for all tobacco products. There may be some reduction in the nicotine level allowed in tobacco products.&nbs...

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