❌ No smoking for those born after 2008! 🚬

Purchasing cigarettes could soon be forbidden forever to those born after 2008.

This is the bill that the New Zealand government is about to approve and which, in fact, will forever ban the sale of tobacco products to those who turn 14 in 2022 and to the generations after them for the rest of their life. New Zealand would be the first case in the world.

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New Zealand's project is ambitious: to become the first smoke-free country in the world.

The short-term goal is to reach 5% of New Zealand's smokers by 2025. Drastic measures in recent years have helped to lower the daily rate of smokers from 18% in 2008 to 11.6% in 2018.

To continue on this path, the government is preparing to approve a law that will progressively ban the next generations from smoking.

No cigarettes for those who turn 14 next year. Each year the bar will be pushed forward, to include all the inhabitants of the country.

The package of measures also includes:

• Drastic decrease in the number of establishments authorised to sell tobacco products;

• Reduction in the amount of nicotine in cigarettes;

• Strengthening of funding for services to battle addiction, primarily smoking.

The New Zealand Minister of Health, Ayesha Verall says: "We want to make sure young people never start smoking", according to the BBC.

The approval of the law, desired by the Labor majority in government, should not have particular obstacles and therefore in a relatively short time could become reality.

Pirates, what do you think? Let us know in the comments. ⤵️