The minimum age to buy cigarettes will keep rising year after year. That means, in theory at least, 65 years after the law takes effect, shoppers could still buy cigarettes – but only if they could prove they were at least 80 years old.
Anyone aged 14 and under will be banned from ever buying cigarettes under new plans by New Zealand’s government.Under legislation announced today, the minimum age to buy cigarettes would keep rising year after year.
Similarly, the UK government has a goal for England to become smoke-free by 2030, part of which could includeIn September, Oxfordshire announced plans to become the first county in England to ban smoking outside bars, restaurants and offices by 2025. Because the current minimum age to buy cigarettes in New Zealand is 18, the lifetime smoking ban for youth would not have an impact for a few years.
She said: ‘You meet, every day, someone facing the misery caused by tobacco. The most horrible ways people die. Being short of breath, caused by tobacco.’