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Post by Kady on Apr 16, 2021 10:47:41 GMT -5
An end to cigarettes? New Zealand aims to create smoke-free generation New Zealand has announced a suite of proposals aimed at outlawing smoking for the next generation and moving the country closer to its goal of being smoke-free by 2025. The plans include the gradual increase of the legal smoking age, which could extend to a ban on the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products to anyone born after 2004, making smoking effectively illegal for that generation. Also under consideration was a significant reduction in the level of nicotine allowed in tobacco products, prohibiting filters, setting a minimum price for tobacco, and restricting the locations where tobacco and cigarettes can be sold. “We need a new approach,” Associate Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall said on Thursday, announcing the changes. “About 4,500 New Zealanders die every year from tobacco, and we need to make accelerated progress to be able to reach that goal [of Smokefree 2025]. Business-as-usual without a tobacco control program won’t get us there.” www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/16/new-zealand-aims-to-create-smoke-free-generation-cigarettes
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Post by nkat on Apr 25, 2021 16:52:25 GMT -5
Oh good luck to them with that.
Nkat
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Post by Kady on Apr 26, 2021 8:26:15 GMT -5
....this would never work here....too much interference with people's rights to get lung cancer.
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Post by highlandannie on Apr 27, 2021 2:11:59 GMT -5
Scotland and later England banned smoking in ANY place of business in 2006/07. That includes anyone who is driving a work car even if no one else is in it, also truckers. No smoking while waiting outdoors for a train. All cigarette packs are plain except for warnings and are not kept out in view - they are in cupboards. Many people roll their own cigarettes and always have because of how expensive they are. In Scotland it currently costs nearly £11 per pack. In Australia it is double that.
When I quit smoking in 1993 (US) it was about $20 for a carton (of 200). When I started smoking at age 15 it was 35 cents a pack.
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Post by 2old on Apr 27, 2021 16:36:52 GMT -5
Our community banned smoking in public venues some years ago. The U.S. has a strong tobacco lobby and we will never completely see smoking banned. I just don't see how people can afford it. $5 and $6 a pack!
I quite cold turkey in 1985. When I started, cigarettes were less than 30 cents/pack. We could send money with soldiers to the post commissary and they would buy a carton for $2.00. I always swore I would never pay more than 50 cents/pack. Quite just about the time it got there.
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Post by Kady on Apr 28, 2021 12:37:01 GMT -5
....ran across this this morning Biden administration expected to announce plan to ban menthol cigarettes Source: Washington Post The Biden administration is expected to announce this week that it will propose a ban on menthol cigarettes, an action urgently sought by tobacco opponents and civil rights groups that say African Americans have been disproportionately hurt by the industry’s aggressive targeting of Black communities. The administration also is poised to say it will seek to ban menthol and other flavors in mass-produced cigars, including small cigars popular with young people, according to administration officials familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss it publicly. It could be years before such bans would take effect, but the administration’s announcement is likely to be hailed by antismoking organizations as a critical and long-overdue step in curbing tobacco use and improving public health. Despite sharp declines in smoking in recent years, tobacco use remains a leading source of illness and death in the United States and worldwide, especially among people of color. Antismoking groups have been frustrated for years by Washington’s inaction on menthol cigarettes and have turned to states and localities to request bans, with mixed success. They became more optimistic about a possible federal ban in recent months amid President Biden’s repeated vows to reduce health disparities made glaringly obvious by the coronavirus pandemic, and efforts by the Black Lives Matter movement to focus on institutionalized racism. Read more: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/28/ban-on-menthol-cigarettes/
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