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New Zealand to ban young people from being able to buy cigarettes

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New Zealand to ban young people from being able to buy cigarettes
Breaking a cigarette in front of the New Zealand flag.

New Zealand on Thursday announced plans to prevent young people from ever being able to buy cigarettes as part of an initiative to make the country entirely smoke-free by 2025.
The measures will mean that anyone born after 2008 will not be able to purchase cigarettes or tobacco products in their lifetime, while the level of nicotine in cigarettes available to older people will be reduced.

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