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NT Supreme Court judge sentences man to jail over illegal tobacco crop near Katherine

A man who played a key role in a multi-million-dollar illicit tobacco operation that tried to avoid paying $15 million to the Australian Tax Office will serve three months in jail.

ABC News

Japan approves tax-code revision, more funds for defence build-up

Japan's ruling bloc formally agreed on Friday to revise the national tax code for the next fiscal year starting in April, aiming to shift household assets into investment as part of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's "new capitalism" agenda.

Reuters

These Memos Show That FDA Regulation of E-Cigarettes Is Driven by Dubious Value Judgments Rather Than Science

The agency is determined to ban the flavors that former smokers overwhelmingly prefer. For the children.

Reason

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New Zealand Bans Cigarette Sales to Anyone Born After 2008. Forever.

The country's strategy ignores the failures of prohibition.

Reason

People spending £54m every year on tobacco costing local NHS £15m

Statistics in a recent Wirral Council report said smoking was “the biggest cause of preventable ill health” in the area with an estimated 1,386 deaths every year

Liverpool Echo

New Zealand’s world first laws effectively ban smoking in the future

New Zealand is set to bring about a smoke-free generation. One expert thinks this will kick off the next wave of tobacco control policies.

The New Daily

NZ Parliament Has Passed Legislation That Will Prevent Future Generations From Buying Cigarettes

The country wants to be completely smoke-free by 2025.

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New Zealanders born after 2009 banned from EVER smoking in bid for cigarette-free future

In theory, someone trying to buy tobacco products 50 years from now in New Zealand would have to show ID to prove they are at least 62 years old - though Wellington has a stated aim of making the country smoke-free by 2025

Daily Mirror

New Zealand imposes world-first lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes

It is part of a nationwide goal of having fewer than 5 per cent of New Zealanders smoking by 2025

Evening Standard

New Zealand Imposes Lifetime Ban on Youth Buying Cigarettes

New Zealand on Tuesday passed into law a unique plan to phase out tobacco smoking by imposing a lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes. The law states that tobacco can't ever be sold to anybody born on or after Jan. 1, 2009. It means the minimum age for buying…

Asharq Al-Awsat

New Zealand passes historic law banning next generation from ever smoking

‘Thousands of people will live longer, healthier lives and the health system will be $5bn better off’

The Independent UK

New Zealand bans future generations from buying tobacco under new laws

Future generations of New Zealanders will be banned from purchasing tobacco as part of a package of new anti-smoking laws that passed parliament on Tuesday and are among the most strict in the world.

Reuters

New Zealand imposes lifetime ban on youth buying cigarettes

New Zealand has passed into law a unique plan to phase out tobacco smoking by imposing a lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes

The Independent UK

New Zealand passes world-first tobacco law to ban smoking for next generation

The country is believed to be the first to implement an annually rising legal smoking age

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Los Angeles Times

Supreme Court upholds California ban on sale of flavored tobacco products

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a last-minute plea from the tobacco industry and cleared the way for California to enforce a statewide ban on the sale of most flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes.

The Independent UK

Supreme Court won't block California flavored tobacco ban

The Supreme Court has refused a request from tobacco companies to stop California from enforcing a ban on flavored tobacco products that was overwhelmingly approved by voters in November

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Daily Mirror

Tory Steve Barclay to stub out plan to make Britain tobacco free by 2030

Whitehall sources say he is abandoning the scheme to raise the legal age for buying tobacco one year every year until no-one was able to buy cigarettes at all

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Reason

Oregon's Anti-Vape Laws Will Put This Deaf Immigrant's Hookah Shop Out of Business

You can smoke all the pot you want, but flavored tobacco or nicotine is soon to be illegal.

Bristol Post

Call for Dambuster George 'Johnny' Johnson road name tribute

But Bristol mayor says new street at centre of tobacco road name row has already been decided

Evening Standard

Google Year In Search: Two London attractions were the most searched-for

This year, people around the globe searched for two of London’s top landmarks.

Manchester Evening News

Police uncover haul of illegal tobacco and cigarettes in car after spotting man 'acting suspiciously'

The male ran off and was chased by officers before being detained in Rochdale town centre

Bristol Post

New South Bristol road to be named after first female lord mayor after tobacco row

Marvin Rees vetoed plans for 70-home development to called Navy Cut Road in honour of old cigarette brand

Pedestrian.tv

Young People Are Using Cigarettes To Quit Vapes, Threatening Decades Of Anti-Tobacco Progress

Vape addiction rates among young people have risen so much that cigarette smoking rates are starting to lift too, after decades of declines.

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2 Tobacco Stocks to Buy Before It Gets Too Late

Amid increased health awareness, tobacco usage has declined over the past years. However, the U.S. is still a leading tobacco producer. And given the introduction of new products and sticky consumer habits, the industry should witness stable growth. Thus, investors should buy fundamentally strong tobacco stocks Altria Group (MO) and…

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