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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bitter Truth" data-source="post: 27168047" data-attributes="member: 555686"><img src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/4422/production/_122024471_gettyimages-1168909280.jpg" alt="Stubbed out cigarette" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Anyone born after 2008 will not be able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products in their lifetime..New Zealand will ban the sale of tobacco to its next generation, in a bid to eventually phase out smoking.Anyone born after 2008 will not be able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products in their lifetime, under a law expected to be enacted next year."We want to make sure young people never start smoking," Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verall said.The move is part of a sweeping crackdown on smoking announced by New Zealand's health ministry on Thursday.Doctors and other health experts in the country have welcomed the "world-leading" reforms, which will reduce access to tobacco and restrict nicotine levels in cigarettes."It will help people quit or switch to less harmful products, and make it much less likely that young people get addicted to nicotine," said Prof Janet Hook from the University of Otago.However, others have warned that the move may create a black market for tobacco - something the health ministry's official impact statement does acknowledge, noting "customs will need more resource to enforce border control".New Zealand is determined to achieve a national goal of reducing its national smoking rate to 5% by 2025, with the aim of eventually eliminating it altogether.At the moment, 13% of New Zealand's adults smoke, with the rate much higher among the indigenous Maori population, where it soars to almost a third. Maori also suffer a higher rate of disease and death.Source: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59589775" target="_blank">BBC NEWS</a></blockquote>

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