(12-13-2022, 11:30 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: New Zealand introduces lifetime ban on tobacco purchases:

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/...s-95133504

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand on Tuesday passed into law a unique plan to phase out tobacco smoking by imposing a lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes.

The law states that tobacco can't ever be sold to anybody born on or after Jan. 1, 2009.

It means the minimum age for buying cigarettes will keep going up and up. In theory, somebody trying to buy a pack of cigarettes 50 years from now would need ID to show they were at least 63 years old.

I actually have family in NZ. This is absolutely ridiculous. There is no way this will have the intended outcome. Policing something in this manner may be outside the box but that is because it is absurd. So will it be legal to consume tobacco products just not purchase. Phase it out by make the minimum age incredibly high but not a moving age. 

Saying you can’t do something because you need to develop mentally or physically or because it harms other people justifies banning something or putting an age cap on it. But saying one generation is ok to do something and another is not is bordering on discrimination.

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