{"id":51106,"date":"2022-12-13T14:16:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T05:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/13\/new-zealand-passes-world-first-tobacco-law-to-ban-smoking-by-2025"},"modified":"2022-12-13T14:16:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T05:16:30","slug":"new-zealand-passes-world-first-tobacco-law-to-ban-smoking-for-next-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51106","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand passes world-first tobacco law to ban smoking for next generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country is believed to be the first to implement an annually rising legal smoking age <\/p>\n<p>New Zealand has introduced a steadily rising smoking age to stop those aged 14 and under from ever being able to legally buy cigarettes in world-first legislation to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/27\/nz-moves-ahead-with-world-first-tobacco-laws-in-bid-to-create-smoke-free-generation\">outlaw smoking for the next generation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Associate health minister Ayesha Verrall said at the law\u2019s passing on Tuesday: \u201cThousands of people will live longer, healthier lives and the health system will be $5bn better off from not needing to treat the illnesses caused by smoking, such as numerous types of cancer, heart attacks, strokes, amputations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/13\/new-zealand-passes-world-first-tobacco-law-to-ban-smoking-by-2025\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country is believed to be the first to implement an annually rising legal smoking age New Zealand has introduced a steadily rising smoking age to stop those aged 14 and under from ever being able to legally buy cigarettes in world-first legislation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,771,79,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-smoking","category-society","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51107,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51106\/revisions\/51107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}