New Zealand scraps world-first smoking 'generation ban' to fund tax cuts

Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives New Zealand's new government will scrap the country's world-leading law to ban smoking for future generations to help pay for tax cuts - a move that public health officials believe will cost thousands of lives and be "catastrophic" for Māori communities. In 2022 the country passed pioneering legislation which introduced a steadily rising smoking age to stop those born after January 2...