In New Zealand there is a war on cigarettes, which are banned for the new generations

Keep the new generations away from the temptation of the cigarette. New Zealand has concrete plans to ban the sale of tobacco to young people. According to the new rules proposed, explains the CNN, the limit of 18 years for the purchase of tobacco will be progressively raised. “We want to make sure that young people never start smoking and – Minister Ayesha Verrall announced during a press conference – the sale or supply of tobacco products to young people will become a crime”. Thus, according to Verrall, “anyone who will be 14 at the time the law comes into force will never be able to legally buy tobacco” in a country where “smoking is still the main cause for avoidable deaths” and at the origin of “one in four cases of cancer”. In fact, summarizes the BBC, if the law is approved, those born after 2008 will never be able to buy cigarettes or tobacco. The goal is to bring the new rules into Parliament next year to reach a specific target: prevalence of smokers below 5% by 2025. There are also “concrete support measures” to help smokers ‘quit’ . Like the reduction of nicotine levels in cigarettes and outlets in a country where today, according to official data, more than 13% of adults smoke, while in recent years electronic cigarettes have conquered young people.