New Zealand to be SmokeFree by 2025 as the New Zealand government has recently passed a bill to save their next generation from smoking diseases.
The next generation of New Zealanders will not be able to get their hands on cigarettes in result of a new anti-smoking laws that has been passed by the parliament, recently.
The newly approved law says that that anyone who is born after 2008 will not be able to buy a packet of cigarettes or tobacco products in New Zealand.
The Smokefree bill was introduced by New Zealand Health Minister Ayesha Verrall and she added that it was a step “towards a smoke-free future”.
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Despite the fact that the smoking rate in New Zealand is extremely low that is 8 per cent of adults are smoking on a daily basis.
By 2025, it is intended that the Smokefree Environments Bill would bring the number down to fewer than 5 per cent, with the ultimate goal of eliminating the practice altogether.
This means that the base age for buying cancer-causing smoke-sticks will keep going up for the citizens of New Zealand.
This law has been passed after decades of hard work by the anti-smoking/tobacco organisations, and is in conjunction with the government’s goal of making New Zealand smoke-free by 2025.
Furthermore, the new law has decreased the amount of nicotine allowed and lessened the number of tobacco retailers from around 6,000 to 600.
“There is no good reason to allow a product to be sold that kills half the people that use it,” said the Associate Minister of Health Dr. Ayesha Verrall, to New Zealand parliamentarians.
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While there was a lot of opposition in the parliament to the anti-smoking bill, and phrases such as ‘bad policy’, ‘state prohibition’, etc., were thrown about, the bill was finally passed into law.
This law may help New Zealand save billions of dollars spent on treating diseases like cancer, strokes, and smoking-related cardiac issues.
Interestingly, the law does not cover vaping, which is quite popular in the country.
