The world-first ban prohibits anyone born after Jan. 1, 2007, from ever buying, using or smoking tobacco.

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.

  • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    21 hours ago

    last year around 1.2 billion people were smoking that were of adult age (18), vs in 2000, it was 1.38 billion. (source WHO)

    I think we have more adults alive now than we did in 2000 though. It’s a slight decline in % of smokers.

    this really tells me that smoking still isn’t going anywhere in this world

    That’s true

    if smoking is still going to be so prevalent, despite countries smacking warnings and such on packaging, what do we do for harm reduction that the current products available don’t solve?

    Limit the amount of nicotine, tar, etc, per cigarette.

    For most smokers, one single cigarette is what they consume at once on a smoke break at work. Most people don’t smoke 5 in a row. If they get less of the bad shit per cigarette, they get less of it per day.

    I’d also recommend super high cigarette prices, but that just leads to more smuggling. There’s a balance to be found there too.

    • CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      21 hours ago

      There has also been a huge push into developing countries by the tobacco industry, so while smoking rates are way down in the developed world they are climbing elsewhere thanks to poorer education and lax government regulation.