Australia will closely monitor a UK plan to ban cigarette sales for future generations, as the government progresses plans to prevent young people from picking up a smoking habit.
A Watch and Act warning is in place for Mount Sheila in the Shire of Ashburton, WA. Keep up to date withThe federal government will monitor a plan to ban smoking for future generations in England "with interest", as it progresses reforms to Australian tobacco laws.
The move mirrors a similar phase-out in New Zealand, which also limits where tobacco products can be sold. "The UK and New Zealand have responded to the specific tactics of 'Big Tobacco' marketed to their populations, and we will monitor their implementation success with interest." Speaking earlier, Greens leader Adam Bandt said he had not heard the detail of the English smoking ban, but said the party would back any measure that works to reduce smoking rates.
"We have some of the lowest rates around our young people and we want to keep it that way, and we don't want to allow things like vaping, for example, to take over and push those smoking rates higher.
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