{"id":1105414,"date":"2021-12-10T08:58:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T13:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1105414"},"modified":"2021-12-10T08:58:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T13:58:55","slug":"authoritarian-new-zealand-to-pass-smoking-prohibition-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/authoritarian-new-zealand-to-pass-smoking-prohibition-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Authoritarian New Zealand to Pass Smoking Prohibition Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fauthoritarian-new-zealand-to-pass-smoking-prohibition-law%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1105414&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/young-woman-smoking-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">New Zealand\u2019s far-left government plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/politics\/127230008\/government-to-ban-tobacco-sales-to-young-people-for-their-lifetime-in-firstever-smokefree-generation\">outlaw<\/a> smoking nationwide by 2025, the country\u2019s health ministry announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Plans to effectively eliminate smoking in New Zealand over the next four years have now been finalized, New Zealand Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall told reporters on December 9.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make sure young people never start smoking, so we will make it an offense to sell or supply smoke tobacco products to new cohorts of young people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The policy is part of a \u201cSmokefree 2025\u201d bill that is expected to breeze through New Zealand\u2019s legislative process in 2022. The legislation \u201cis a headline Labour policy, and the party holds a majority in New Zealand parliament,\u201d the <em>Guardian<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/09\/new-zealand-to-ban-smoking-for-next-generation-in-bid-to-outlaw-habit-by-2025\">noted<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand Labour Party is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labour.org.nz\/party_info\">based<\/a> on democratic socialism and is led by the country\u2019s current prime minister, Jacinda Ardem. The politician was first elected prime minister of New Zealand in 2017 and was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/virus-outbreak-new-zealand-mosque-attacks-auckland-elections-new-zealand-b1ab788954f23f948d8b6c3258c02634\">re-elected<\/a> to the role last fall. Some observers questioned the legitimacy of the October 2020 general election because Ardem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-newzealand-election-ardern\/new-zealands-ardern-postpones-election-as-coronavirus-flares-up-idUSKCN25C0UW\">postponed<\/a> the vote \u2014 originally scheduled for September \u2014 for one month citing \u201ccampaigning\u201d difficulties presented by her own administration\u2019s coronavirus lockdown measures in Aukland, New Zealand\u2019s most populous urban center, at the time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>If the \u201cSmokefree 2025\u201d bill passes as expected in 2022, people in New Zealand age 14 years and younger at the time will never be able to legally purchase tobacco in the country. The public health plan will increase the legal age for purchasing tobacco products in New Zealand each year over the next four years to eventually create a \u201csmokefree generation\u201d of New Zealanders, Verrall said on December 9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome decisions in the plan are non-legislative, such as practical support measures for smokers, but others will require amendments to existing legislation that is expected to be passed next year,\u201d New Zealand\u2019s Stuff news site observed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis includes moves to ensure smoked tobacco products will only be sold by authorised retailers, that only smoked tobacco products with very low nicotine levels will be allowed for manufacture, importation, distribution and sale, and plans to restrict design measures aimed to enhance the appeal and addictiveness of smoked products,\u201d Stuff detailed.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 8,000 New Zealand retailers currently sell tobacco products. The \u201cSmokefree 2025\u201d legislation would aim to reduce this figure \u201cto about 500 under the new rules \u2013 meaning 7,500 will have to transition to a new business model,\u201d Verrall said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDairy owners facing loss of income after losing tobacco sales won\u2019t be compensated,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Verrall referred to small dairy shops in New Zealand, or \u201cdairies,\u201d which traditionally sell tobacco products in addition to milk and other goods. New Zealand dairies rely heavily upon foot traffic from customers seeking tobacco products and will likely suffer tremendous financial hardship under the new smoking ban.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDairies will go out of business,\u201d Sunny Kaushal, an advocate for New Zealand dairies, told Stuff in April when the \u201cSmokefree 2025\u201d bill was first proposed to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the revenue is gone, how can they survive? We urge the Government to review this proposal and not take a hasty decision which could impact so heavily on small businesses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A dairy shop owner in Glenfield, New Zealand, named Jessica Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/business\/124845749\/restricting-tobacco-sales-could-mean-the-end-of-the-road-for-small-dairies\">told<\/a> Stuff at the time \u201cbusiness would become a lot more difficult if she could no longer sell tobacco.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the people coming to the dairy are after tobacco products,\u201d the small business owner said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by Stuff what she would do if the \u201cSmokefree 2025\u201d bill passed into law, Lee replied, \u201cWe might have to close the shop.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s far-left government plans to outlaw smoking nationwide by 2025, the country\u2019s health ministry announced Thursday. 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