New Zealand to Ban Anyone Born After 2008 from Buying Any Tobacco Products, Ever

[Turd Fergusen]

New Zealand on Thursday announced plans to ban anyone born after 2008 from ever being able to buy cigarettes or other tobacco products in the country as part of a broader effort to completely phase out smoking in the island nation by 2025.

The proposed legislation, which is expected to become law next year, will gradually raise the smoking age over decades until it covers the entire population.

People who already smoke will be allowed to continue to do so, but nicotine levels in available tobacco products will be reduced and the number of retailers authorized to sell cigarettes could be cut drastically, according to the legislation.

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New Zealand to ban all young people from ever buying cigarettes

New Zealand on Thursday announced plans to ban anyone born after 2008 from ever being able to buy cigarettes or other tobacco products in the country.

nypost.com

 

[Totemic]

What the fuck? When did Australia and New Zealand become a dictatorship regime?

This falls under, my body my choices. I am perfectly fine with no smoking indoors, but foe the government to come and say "you can't smoke ever". Fuck you

 

[cubby]

Slippery slope, people, slippery slope, what will they ban next?

 

[Metalfan]

The cigs will be gone but you will be able to buy any amount of fentanyl or heroin,with no repercussions,well except death of course!

 

[Hermy]

Prohibition, in the form of the Volstead Act, came into force on 17th January 1920. Congress might just as well have given the Mob the keys and combinations to every bank vault in America and told them to help themselves. Contrary to what was cried long and loud from the rooftops by Carry A. Nation (née Carrie Amelia Moore), crime rates skyrocketed and Prohibition probably created more alcoholics than it cured, if indeed it "cured" any at all.

Prohibition ended in 1933. Alcoholics Anonymous marks 1935 as its inception. I leave to you, gentle readers, to draw your own conclusions.

Have Australia and New Zealand never heard of the principle of forbidden fruit? If this bill does indeed pass, I sense a black market operation that, without reaching the scale of the Prohibition Era, is just ripe for the picking and could still be quite lucrative.

Side note: How ironic is it that the Volstead Act came into force on Al Capone's 21st birthday? You can't make this up.

Hermy note: Carry really needed to get laid.

 

[Sudonim]

When did Australia and New Zealand become a dictatorship regime?

Smoking is being phased out in the EU too. We already have it so that they arent allowed to have pictures of fancy labels on tobacco products. The packaging is plain army green with the same font across all brands. Brand names are in tiny tiny letters at the bottom and 80% of the package is one of those anti smoking pictures.

Over the next few years they will make it so the only place you can buy tobacco is in specialty shops. No more grocery stores or gas stations. Right now you cant smoke in public places but next year it also becomes illegal to smoke in your own home or car. Outside only, but even then a ton of outside places are already smoke free. You're also banned from smoking within so many meters of a door in a public setting.

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceuticals. All kind of interesting to watch how different people and companies react when they learn and science shows that their (legal) products are actually addictive to humans. Also interesting to see how the public responds. I find it fascinating that the Sackler's and other's like them are finally being vilified for their actions (rightfully so) but the big liquor and tobacco families have slipped through the cracks for their actions, past and present.

As for this specific action of NZ. It's one of those things in the grey area. Yeah it's probably for the best/greater good, but is it worth the sacrifice of personal freedom? Ditto on vaccine mandates.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Add the soda companies too. Their products are so detrimental to a persons overall health.

 

[Sejanus]

Yet they won't make them illegal to sell.