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New Zealand Imposes Lifetime Ban on Youth Buying Cigarettes

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

New Zealand passes historic law banning next generation from ever smoking

‘Thousands of people will live longer, healthier lives and the health system will be $5bn better off’

The Independent UK

New Zealand bans future generations from buying tobacco under new laws

Future generations of New Zealanders will be banned from purchasing tobacco as part of a package of new anti-smoking laws that passed parliament on Tuesday and are among the most strict in the world.

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New Zealand imposes lifetime ban on youth buying cigarettes

New Zealand has passed into law a unique plan to phase out tobacco smoking by imposing a lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes

The Independent UK

New Zealand passes world-first tobacco law to ban smoking for next generation

The country is believed to be the first to implement an annually rising legal smoking age

The Guardian - AU

Man feared the worst after coming home to 'smoking front door'

The woman says she is "lucky" that her partner came home from work early, or she "might not be here anymore"

Liverpool Echo

Tory Steve Barclay to stub out plan to make Britain tobacco free by 2030

Whitehall sources say he is abandoning the scheme to raise the legal age for buying tobacco one year every year until no-one was able to buy cigarettes at all

Daily Mirror

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The Stats Guy: Smoking, vaping and Australia’s pursuit of a healthier population

Beep, beep. $51.95. That’s not an unusual amount for a shop at the supermarket. What did the guy in front of me get for his $51.95? One packet of 25

The New Daily

Dentist warns how your wobbly teeth could be a sign of mouth cancer - as cases climb by 40%

Early diagnosis of mouth cancer can boost your survival rate to 90 percent. Doctor Parneet Sehmi has revelaed the warning signs to look out for

Daily Mirror

Chicago police officer arrested for urinating in ice machine at Florida beach bar

Henry Capouch is charged with simple battery and disorderly conduct

The Independent UK

Number of smokers in UK hits lowest level on record, ONS says

New figures show 13.3 per cent of people aged 18 and over in UK smoked cigarettes in 2021

The Independent UK

Conor McGregor smokes weed while teasing trilogy fight with UFC rival Nate Diaz

McGregor is currently holidaying in Amsterdam as he continues to take time away from the UFC ahead of a potential comeback, but has threatened to "bury" rival Diaz while smoking weed in the Dutch capital

Daily Mirror

ONS records lowest proportion of smokers in UK on record

New figures from the Office for National Statistics show that 13.3% of people aged 18 and over in the UK smoked cigarettes in 2021.

The Independent UK

Heart attacks among young people on the rise; lifestyle changes that can help prevent it

Shocking videos of young people collapsing due to heart attacks have surfaced on twitter, spreading concern among netizens. In one such video, the bride suffered from a cardiac arrest minutes after exchanging garlands on stage at her wedding. In another video, a 25-year-old man who is said to have gone…

The Times of India

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Young People Are Using Cigarettes To Quit Vapes, Threatening Decades Of Anti-Tobacco Progress

Vape addiction rates among young people have risen so much that cigarette smoking rates are starting to lift too, after decades of declines.

The Conversation

More South Africans are smoking - higher taxes and stronger law enforcement are needed

Tobacco use imposes a significant health and economic burden on countries. Research estimates that the cost of smoking in South Africa amounted to 0.97% of the country’s GDP in 2016. These costs are likely to have increased as a result of the observed rise in smoking prevalence over the past…

The Independent UK

Throat cancer symptoms you should have checked by a GP

Experts run down the common misconceptions about ditching cigarettes

Bangkok Post

Anutin addresses beach photo involving minors

A photo depicting two minors smoking pot along Pattaya Beach that went viral has prompted Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to call on the police to enforce the law.

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Amsterdam bids to ban pub crawls and limit cannabis as good tourists 'do not pee through the mailbox'

The tourist destination is seeking to clean up its image with a ban on smoking cannabis in public in the Red Light District and limiting sale of alcohol

Daily Record

MSP wants answers on Forth Valley Royal Hospital smoking breaches

Mid Scotland and Fife Conservative MSP has written to health board chief on the matter.

The Guardian - AU

‘Lives are at stake’: Australia returns to the nicotine frontline with vaping reform

A decade since world-first plain packaging reforms, there is a new threat: the alarming rate of children using e-cigarettes

Bangkok Post

Homeless boy sent to juvenile centre after found smoking ganja

PATTAYA: A 10-year-old runaway has been sent to a detention centre in Rayong province after he and another boy were photographed smoking marijuana from a hookah at a pier in south Pattaya last week.

The Independent UK

Throat cancer symptoms you should have checked by a GP

Experts run down the common misconceptions about ditching cigarettes

The Independent UK

Throat cancer symptoms you should have checked by a GP

Experts run down the common misconceptions about ditching cigarettes

The Independent UK

Mouth cancer causes grow as cases skyrocket in UK

HPV now a major concern alongside smoking, say doctors

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