New Zealand decides to sell cigarettes to youth after all—but its scrapped smoking ban has inspired other nations

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New Zealand won’t be kicking butts after all.

The country, in 2022, passed legislation that would gradually raise the legal age to buy tobacco products, effectively preventing anyone born in 2009 or later from ever being able to do so. However, a change in the government has led to a reversal of that policy.