The parliaments of Malaysia and New Zealand are on course to pass historic and unprecedented "generational" anti-smoking laws that will ban the sale of tobacco to everyone born after a given date for their entire lives. Opposition parties in both countries' legislatures voiced broad support for...
entirely smoke-free within the next four years.Other measures include reducing the legal amount of nicotine in tobacco products to very low levels,cutting down the shops where cigarettes could legally be sold and increasing funding to addiction services.The new laws will not restrict vape(电子烟)...
New Zealand U-turns on planned smoking ban 新西兰对禁烟计划态度大转弯 New Zealand has abandoned a pioneering plan to ban smoking. Last year, it became the first country to pass laws to phase out the sale of cigarettes. These would have prevented new generations of young adults from buying ...
2023. New Zealand's Indigenous people are furious over plans to snuff out anti-smoking laws. National Public Radio. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/12/06/1217306190/ new-zealand-maori-indigenous-people-anti-smoking-law. Accessed 5 July 2024. Beauchamp, Tom L., and James F....
Anti-tobacco groups are up Turning the products that are entrenched in arms for youngsters in society suit tide laws landmark decision individual cigarettes Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps New Zealand has abandoned a groundbreaking plan to ban smoking. Last year, it became...
Some of the strictest smoking bans are in some of the United States’ states, such as New York and Florida, which include bars and restaurants as smoke-free places. Spain, Italy, Iran, Norway, Sweden, Singapore, South Africa, Uruguay and New Zealand have made laws to limit smoking. ...
The Ethics of Public Health Laws, and the Special Case of the New "Model Law" A similar law against showing movies with smoking actors has previously passed in India. Notwithstanding the good intentions, these new laws and other similar legislation raise significant ethical issues, such as limita...
You can pass all the laws you want but that doesn’t mean people will follow them. People’s attitudes need to change.W: Exactly! In the 1920s they banned alcohol in America, but of course people didn’t stop drinking. Instead, lots of people got sick and even died from drinking ...
Mao Qun’an, of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, said that the biggest obstacle for smoking laws in China is the public’s lack of awareness around the dangers of smoking and secondhand smoking. That makes sense, otherwise why would people smoke so blat...
Despite the implementation of various tobacco control interventions (e.g. increased taxation, mass media campaigns, or smoke-free laws for indoor public places and workplaces) the prevalence of tobacco use remains problematic [1]. Given that the onset of smoking generally takes place during ...