{"id":60130,"date":"2023-11-27T09:53:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T00:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/27\/new-zealand-scraps-world-first-smoking-generation-ban-to-fund-tax-cuts"},"modified":"2023-11-27T09:53:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T00:53:19","slug":"new-zealand-scraps-world-first-smoking-generation-ban-to-fund-tax-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60130","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand scraps world-first smoking \u2018generation ban\u2019 to fund tax cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s new government will scrap the country\u2019s world-leading law to ban smoking for future generations to help pay for tax cuts \u2013 a move that public health officials believe will cost thousands of lives and be \u201ccatastrophic\u201d for M\u0101ori communities.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022 the country <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/13\/new-zealand-passes-world-first-tobacco-law-to-ban-smoking-by-2025#:~:text=%E2%80%9COur%20goal%20of%20being%20smoke,habit%20from%20cigarettes%20to%20vapes.\">passed pioneering legislation<\/a> which introduced a steadily rising smoking age to stop those born after January 2009 from ever being able to legally buy cigarettes. The law was designed to prevent thousands of smoking-related deaths and save the health system billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/27\/new-zealand-scraps-world-first-smoking-generation-ban-to-fund-tax-cuts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of livesNew Zealand\u2019s new government will scrap the country\u2019s world-leading law to ban smoking for future generations to help pay for tax cuts \u2013 a m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4046,"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":[41,2765,56,933,771],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-christopher-luxon","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-smoking"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60130","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\/4046"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60131,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60130\/revisions\/60131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}