The world-first ban prohibits anyone born after Jan. 1, 2007, from ever buying, using or smoking tobacco.
The Maldives has become the first country in the world to impose a generational smoking ban, barring anyone born after Jan. 1, 2007, from ever smoking, purchasing or using tobacco.
“The ban applies to all forms of tobacco, and retailers are required to verify age prior to sale,” the health ministry said Saturday as the ban came into effect.
The step “makes the Maldives the first country in the world to enforce a nationwide generational tobacco ban,” it added.
see the tricky thing is that i can’t find data on how many people have truly quitted smoking using NRT. I’d like to see how successful it really is, and prove myself wrong that there is in fact, good progress on abstaining from tobacco. The only thing i was able to go off of was current est. of smokers worldwide, and while vs 2000 was a drop, it’s still quite high, and not optimistic outlooks on a substantial drop in smoking (but in a positive light, hopefully less cancer and ill people)