{"id":1773950,"date":"2022-12-13T13:43:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T18:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1773950"},"modified":"2022-12-13T13:48:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T18:48:24","slug":"new-zealand-bans-cigarettes-to-all-people-born-after-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-zealand-bans-cigarettes-to-all-people-born-after-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Bans Cigarettes to All People Born After 2009"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fnew-zealand-bans-cigarettes-to-all-people-born-after-2009%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=1773950&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\/2022\/12\/original_ardern.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>                Kiwis born after 2009 will not be able to purchase legal cigarettes, according to a new law by<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/watch-authoritarian-new-zealand-prime-minister-demands-that-world-leaders-censor-online-speech-and-other-weapons-of-war\"> Jacinda Ardern&#8217;s Labour party<\/a> that seeks to make the country smoke-free.<\/p>\n<p>The law would grandfather tobacco use to those born before January 1 of 2009, reports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11532161\/New-Zealand-imposes-lifetime-ban-youth-buying-cigarettes.html\">Daily Mail<\/a>. This would mean that 50 years from now, one would have to be 63 or older to buy cigarettes in <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/new-zealand-announces-plan-to-ban-smoking-for-future-generations-by-2025\">New Zealand.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Health authorities are aiming to make the country smoke-free by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The law will also reduce the number of retailers who can sell tobacco by 90 percent, which would leave just 600 stores.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand&#8217;s associate minister of health said that the legislation seeks to ban cigarettes from use, saying that &#8220;There is no good reason to allow a product to be sold that kills half the people that use it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I can tell you that we will end this in the future, as we pass this legislation,&#8221; she continued.<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand health system hopes that billions of dollars will be saved by cutting smoking, as it causes cancer, increases blood pressure, strokes, and causes a variety of other diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers voted to pass the legislation 76 to 43.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand&#8217;s right-wing ACT party, which voted against the bill, said that corner stores would go out of business without cigarettes to sell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We stand opposed to this bill because it&#8217;s a bad bill and its bad policy, its that straightforward and simple,&#8221; said ACT&#8217;s deputy leader Brook van Velden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There won&#8217;t be better outcomes for New Zealanders,&#8221; van Velden said.<\/p>\n<p>Van Velden called it &#8220;nanny-state prohibition&#8221; which would create a black market.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics New Zealand has found that 8 percent of New Zealand adults smoked daily, down from 16 percent a decade ago. 8.3 percent of adults vape daily, an increase of 1 percent from six years ago. Indigenous Maori populations smoke more than the average New Zealander, with around one-fifth reporting that they smoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiwis born after 2009 will not be able to purchase legal cigarettes, according to a new law by Jacinda Ardern&#8217;s Labour party that seeks to make the country smoke-free.The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1773953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[8624,4929,5458,8626,8625,4370,3819,8627],"class_list":["post-1773950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-8624","tag-bans","tag-bongino","tag-born","tag-cigarettes","tag-people","tag-report","tag-zealand"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1773953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}