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New Zealand planning law to ban sale of cigarettes

Jonathan Duane
Jonathan Duane

07:26 9 Dec 2021


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Their target is to cut the smoking population to 5%

New Zealand is planning a new law to phase out the sale of cigarettes and create a smoke-free generation.

From 2027, ministers want a moving ban on tobacco products.

Anyone aged 14 at the time will never be legally allowed to buy them.

Ministers think current measures - like plain packaging - aren't enough to reach a target of cutting the smoking population to less than 5%.

It'll make the country's tobacco industry one of the most restricted in the world.


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