New Zealand bans cigarettes for all those born after 2009
Health authorities are aiming to make the country smoke-free by 2025.
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New Zealand's associate minister of health said that the legislation seeks to ban cigarettes from use, saying that "There is no good reason to allow a product to be sold that kills half the people that use it.
And the government creates yet another black market for organized crime.New Zealand bans cigarettes for all those born after 2009
Health authorities are aiming to make the country smoke-free by 2025.thepostmillennial.com
They're creating a lot more.And the government creates yet another black market for organized crime.
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Statistics New Zealand has found that 8 percent of New Zealand adults smoked daily, down from 16 percent a decade ago. 8.3 percent of adults vape daily, an increase of 1 percent from six years ago. Indigenous Maori populations smoke more than the average New Zealander, with around one-fifth reporting that they smoke.
Maybe it's because all tobacco does is to cause one to become addicted to it, while all those other drugs at least give one a buzz?That's kinda crazy because Portugal has been known as one of the most open Drug countries in the world. Most of them are somewhat legal.
Then who would we vote for genius?Ban politicians!
You go to Cuba? Reported.Man I may have to move to Cuba. They banned smoking in restaurants long ago. However, every place I went to I lit up a cigar and they immediately brought me an ashtray. Never once did anyone complain. Go to a persons house that is normally smoke free and they invite you in even when they see you smoking and again, bring you an ashtray.
All these countries that pretend to be free have forgotten what real freedom is.
C'mon man, why ya gotta be like that? I'm sure if ya ask nice, he'll bring you some cigars next time he goes.Reported
Why is it that governments never learn anything from any social experiment that fails (no matter how much the greater good is). If anything, looking at the failed social experiments of the U.S. We have the experiments of alcohol, drugs. On the world stage we have the banning of DDT which directly led to an increase in the population of mosquitoes which in turn led to a increase of malaria. We also have had to ban certain insecticides which affected the lives of many humans. We were killing ourselves.
Has there ever been a social experiment for the greater good that didn't turn around to our detriment. An individual wants to make a change for their own good in order for a ground change to happen.
No worries. Gov knows already. They tried to fine me but lawyer wrote them a letter and I never heard from them again.You go to Cuba? Reported.
I remember the good old days when we would DDT the kids. Kids were a lot tougher back then.
New Zealand bans cigarettes for all those born after 2009
Health authorities are aiming to make the country smoke-free by 2025.thepostmillennial.com
You are correct. My wife is a cardio-thoracic nurse. Every Cheech & Chong aficionado they see in her unit is a train wreck.So...the people who were so militant opposing a POT ban, have nothing to say about banning TOBACCO.
Probably it's either because, variously, they're only concerned with THEIR OWN preferences, or - like Soros - they're doing some chemical social-engineering.
Something that relaxes the mind, and aids in focus...BAD! Something that bakes the brain...GOOD!
FWIW, pot is harder on the lungs than tobacco. Ever see the residue in a pot pipe? That goes into lungs, too. I suspect we'll see an increase in lung disorders in users...if there are any significant numbers who resisted the Jab but who smoke the weed.
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So far, Brookline, Massachusetts is the only jurisdiction in the United States to have enacted a tobacco ban. Brookline bans the sale of tobacco to anyone born after the year 2000. It doesn’t take an entrepreneurial genius to figure out ways to make money legally selling cigarettes to adults from the other side of the Brookline town line.
Earlier this year, California lawmakers considered making the Golden State the first in the nation to enact New Zealand’s tobacco prohibition model into law. A bill to that effect failed to advance during this year’s legislative session. Interestingly, California’s major anti‐smoking and anti‐vaping groups chose not to lobby for the bill. A Cal Matters report quoted Autumn Ogden‐Smith, director of California state legislation for the American Cancer Society Action Network, saying, “This is not the time to tackle this. We’re trying to do the clean‐up on the flavored tobacco ban. We’re having enforcement issues.”
As I wrote here, banning menthol tobacco creates its own set of harmful unintended consequences.
New Zealand’s recent about‐face on tobacco prohibition will hopefully put to rest similar efforts in California and other states. ...
According to press reports, the New Zealand parliament is scheduled to take up, as a matter of “public urgency” (enabling lawmakers to bypass a public comment period), repealing the ban on the sale of tobacco products to anyone born after January 1, 2009. The ban was passed during the previous administration, in which Jacinda Ardern was Prime Minister. The ban was scheduled to go into effect this July.
The repeal is part of a 100‐day plan introduced by the new coalition government led by Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. The repeal also stops the government from forcing 90 percent of tobacco retailers to close and forcing cigarette manufacturers to reduce nicotine content by 95 percent.
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