Re: [新聞] 紐西蘭的下一個世代起，將「終生禁菸」

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※ 引述《Aotearoa (長白雲之鄉)》之銘言：
: 重點翻譯：紐西蘭政府預計在2022年提出，
: 立法後，在2027年開始施行的法律，
: 從2027年起，14歲以下的所有國民，
: 將「一生」被禁止購買香菸或菸草製品。
: 健康部長 Ayesha Verrall 表示：
: 「我們要確保年輕人們不會嘗試開始抽菸。」
: 目前紐西蘭的成人抽菸率大約 13％，十年前則是 18％。
: 原文：
: New Zealand will ban the sale of tobacco to its next generation, in a bid to: eventually phase out smoking.
: Anyone born after 2008 will not be able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products
: in their lifetime, under a law expected to be enacted next year.
: "We want to make sure young people never start smoking," Health Minister Dr: Ayesha Verall said.
: The move is part of a sweeping crackdown on smoking announced by New
: Zealand's health ministry on Thursday.
: Doctors and other health experts in the country have welcomed the
: "world-leading" reforms which will reduce access to tobacco and restrict
: nicotine levels in cigarettes.
: "It will help people quit or switch to less harmful products, and make it
: much less likely that young people get addicted to nicotine," said Prof Janet
: Hook from the University of Otago.
: New Zealand is determined to achieve a national goal of reducing its national
: smoking rate to 5% by 2025, with the aim of eventually eliminating it
: altogether.
: Currently, about 13% of New Zealand adults smoke, down from 18% about a
: decade ago. But the rate is much higher - about 31%- among the indigenous
: Maori population who also suffer a higher rate of disease and death.
: New Zealand's health ministry says smoking causes one in four cancers and
: remains the leading cause of preventable death for its five million strong
: population. The industry has been the target of legislators for more than a: decade now.
: As part of the crackdown announced on Thursday, the government also
: introduced major tobacco controls, including significantly restricting where: cigarettes can be sold to remove them from supermarkets and corner stores.
: The number of shops authorised to sell cigarettes will be drastically reduced
: to under 500 from about 8,000 now, officials say.
: In recent years, vaping - smoking e-cigarettes which produce a vapour that
: also delivers nicotine - has become far more popular among younger
: generations than cigarettes.
: New Zealand health authorities warn however, that vaping is not harmless.
: Researchers have found hazardous, cancer-causing agents in e-cigarette
: liquids as well.
: But in 2017 the country adopted vaping as a pathway to help smokers quit
: tobacco.
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