New Zealand smoking ban

New Zealand plans to become “smoke-free” by 2025. As part of that effort legislation was passed to make it illegal for future generations to buy tobacco.

Around eight percent of the nation’s 5.1 million people smoke compared to 25 percent in France. The new legislation doesn’t cover vaping though which is gaining in popularity. ACT New Zealand, a right-wing, classical-liberal party, which holds ten out 120 seats, decried the law as bad for small businesses and that it would send people to search for tobacco on the black market. New Zealand’s parliament passed one of the strictest laws in the world against selling tobacco products. New Zealand plans to become “smoke-free” by 2025. Currently there are 6,000 establishments that can sell tobacco which will be reduced to 600 licensed retailers.

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“These measures are important for equitable health for Māori. “This package of laws, which is also supported by a larger range of policies, really does start addressing some of the fundamental reasons why people take up smoking and why they become addicted to smoking, and why they find it difficult to quit.” It will be illegal for anyone born on or after January 1, 2009, to buy cigarettes. On Wednesday, Dr Gartner told The New Daily the raft of laws from New Zealand were “monumental”. [ told The New Daily last year](https://thenewdaily.com.au/new-zealand/2021/12/09/smoking-cigarette-ban-new-zealand/) the move was going to be a “real game changer”. She said the suite of laws, believed to be a world first, was “hugely innovative” and the health minister and anti-smoking advocates could get the “real credit”.

New legislation passed by New Zealand parliament will ban future generations from buying cigarettes or tobacco products.

At the moment vaping is more popular than smoking in New Zealand (8.3 per cent), which the bill won’t effect. It will also reduce the amount of nicotine allowed in tobacco products with an aim to minimise addiction. [November data](https://www.health.govt.nz/publication/annual-update-key-results-2021-22-new-zealand-health-survey) shows that New Zealand smoking rates are 8 per cent of adults, down from 9.4 per cent the year prior — and down from 16 per cent a decade ago. Get your head around this: by 2040, 30-year-olds will be too young to buy a deck. [ABC](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-13/new-zealand-imposes-lifetime-ban-on-youth-buying-cigarettes/101768694), the new laws will prevent the selling of tobacco to anyone born on or after January 1, 2009. That’s a lot of money.

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However, she added that one change that “could be implemented straight away” is raising the age of sale from 18 to 21, which would reduce smoking in that age group by 30%. The review - published in June - sets out recommendations on how the government’s ambition to reduce the national smoking rate to less than 5% by 2030 can be achieved. She said the current six million adult smokers in the UK also need help to quit the habit “if we are to end the deaths from smoking”. Associate minister of health Dr Ayesha Verrall told MPs: “There is no good reason to allow a product to be sold that kills half the people that use it. The country has also imposed a series of hefty tax hikes on cigarettes in recent years. The law aims to stop those aged 14 and under from ever being legally able to buy cigarettes and comes as part of a world-first legislation to outlaw smoking for the next generation.

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It puts us firmly on the path to Smokefree 2025.” Meaning the 6000 retailers will be slashed to 600. “We’ve done well as a country to get to this point, but there is more to do.

Future generations of New Zealanders will be banned from buying cigarettes or tobacco products after legislation passed the country's Parliament.

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The ban is more far-reaching than anything Australia has done to tackle smoking. “If you make the switch (to vaping) as a smoker, you will definitely improve your health, and it’s a valuable quitting aid for many people,” he said. Dr Mendelsohn said he was concerned by the ban’s potential to open up a “black market”, akin to the black market that surrounds vaping – a claim Dr Barnsley called “rubbish”. “To have a black market, you have to have demand, and if young people aren’t allowed to buy cigarettes they won’t become addicted – hence, no demand,” she said. “Having a clear pathway to phasing out addictive tobacco cigarettes will bring many benefits for New Zealand and other countries that consider it,” she told news.com.au. Australia could follow in New Zealand’s footsteps with a complete ban on cigarettes in a bid to phase out the deadly and addictive habit.