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What Could Go Right? - Tobacco Endgame
This is our weekly newsletter, What Could Go Right? Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Thursday at 5am ET. You can read past issues here. Tobacco Endgame New Zealand considered, then dropped the idea and the United Kingdom might soon run with it, but as of this week the Maldives beat them both to the punch. The island nation just became the first in the world to institute a generational tobacco ban, which prohibits young people born …
The tobacco countdown has just begun, and the trigger is in the Indian. Maldives has become the first country in the world to cut the smoking cycle, as since last Saturday, everything born after 1 January 2007 has been banned from smoking or buying cigarettes or the like. Without exceptions, without deadlines and without turning back, the archipelago has signed the first sentence of legal extinction against a global addiction. Ratified by Presid…
The archipelago of Maldives, known as a popular tourist destination in the Indian Ocean, has taken a giant step in the global fight against smoking. The government has implemented an unprecedented measure that prohibits the purchase and consumption of cigarettes from anyone born on or after 1 January 2007. The Ministry of Health has described this provision as a "historical milestone", making the island nation the first country to establish such…
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