Maldives becomes the first country to impose a generational ban on smoking
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/maldives-becomes-first-country-impose-generational-ban-smoking-rcna241766
Maldives becomes the first country to impose a generational ban on smoking
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/maldives-becomes-first-country-impose-generational-ban-smoking-rcna241766
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New Zealand did this ages ago and, in a plot twist move, they overturned it recently.
Hopefully the Maldives follows suit. Imagine not being able to have a drunk cigarette for your 30th birthday.
Nah wont ever work. Folks want to do what they want. Stop restricting that.
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People should have free choice,might as well ban fast food and alcohol and make gym membership compulsory
Good. Let’s hope they stick to it.
We badly need this in the UK, every public space people just vape or smoke, such a disgusting habit. Should only be allowed to do this at home.
If they tried to ban smoking in Vietnam, wow, that’d cause conflict.
Should be world wide… should have happened 40 years ago.
Hey… here’s this product that deliberately addicted you to it. The upsides? NONE. All it does is damage your body and vastly increase your risk of heart attack and lung/throat cancer.
Even that feeling of “relaxation” you feel from it… is quite literally you feeding the addiction. Your nerves were shot from the lack of nicotine. So even the supposed calming is really just you getting a fix. Solving a “problem” the cigarette created in the first place.
It’s ridiculous. We’ve banned far less dangerous things for even weaker reasons.
Time and time again it has been proven that prohibition doesn’t work, yet they still continue to try it.
Germany increased the tax on cigarettes years ago in an effort to discourage use and create revenue for health programs. Soon thereafter, they reversed the policy because revenues dropped too much.
On an irrelevant note, Maldives is a country where leaving Islam is punishable by death. Also, you cannot be a citizenship unless you convert to Islam or were born into a Muslim family.
Didn’t New Zealand do it before. I clearly remember those news from a few years ago.
New Zealand did and then the long arm of big tobacco embraced the new right leaning government, quickly abandoned
Oh wow 😳
This is so wrong and stupid.
It’s not the
governments place to tell people what they can and can’t do.
Education is the key here, not the banning of it.
How big is Maldives? This will not last long.
Even the ban on liquor during Prohibition in the US didn’t last more than 20 years.
Has the UK not imposed a generational ban? It’s now illegal for anyone born after 2010(?) to ever buy tobacco products
Australia put the tax right up, I don’t smoke but I think a pack of smokes is around $50.
Well done Maldives, now take on the child prostitution..
good luck enforcing that on an island chain that relies heavily on tourism from countries where smoking is still legal
Didn’t NZ do this like 3 or 4 years ago?
Black Market cigarettes and all the violence that goes with it will soon follow.
Only 7 million a year? I honestly thought it would be more.
Remember when the US successfully reduced smoking in a generation . . . and then the vapes popped up
Did they ban smokeless tobacco products like IQOS and Zyn too? If not, could be good, they really are less harmful
Can we just let adults be adults? If someone wants to smoke and get cancer that’s fine. If someone wants to drink their liver into oblivion that’s fine as long as it doesn’t harm others. Yea it’s destructive but let’s preserve people rights and autonomy.
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