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Civil Rights Losing Out to New Zealand’s War on Tobacco

Commentary Occasionally, one comes across a law that creates more problems than it tries to solve. The New Zealand Parliament adopted such a law on Dec. 13, the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Act 2022. The law stipulates that a person “must not sell a smoked tobacco product to a person born…


New Zealand to Ban Cigarettes Sales to a Generation

New Zealand announced it plans to ban the sales of cigarettes to the next generation as part of the government’s new plan to make the country smokefree. “This is a historic day for the health of our people,” Associate Minister of Health Ayesha Verrall said during the announcement of the Smokefree 2025 Action Plan on…