Russia proposes banning cigarette sales to people born in 2016 or later

Society is slowly gravitating away from tobacco cigarettes, a shift resulting largely from dedicated anti-tobacco campaigns highlighting associated health risks and, more recently, the prevalence of nicotine vaping devices. The change isn’t happening quickly enough in some critics’ opinions, however, and not every country is seeing the same rate of decline. Now, in an effort to eradicate smoking within its …