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.
The issue is that during the prohibition, the governement started selling poisoned alcohol on the black market. Its not wild to speculate that the government currently has a hand in all the fenanyl going around. The issue with banning it isnt that it works/doesnt, or that it limits people or anything like that. The issue is that when it is banned, there is no governmental oversight on ensuring the product is safe, and the government has every reason to poison those getting it from the black market. People are going to die over this in preventable ways.