If you were born after 2001, you may never be able to buy tobacco in Australia. In any case, this is the measure that the State of Queensland, in the north-east of the country, would like to put in place. In this region, a series of laws aim to reduce the passive smoking, to encourage smokers to stop smoking and prevent young people from starting to smoke. But Professor Jeff Dunn, president of the NGO Cancer Council Queensland, considers that this is not sufficient: “we need to ask ourselves if we are doing enough. A gradual generational phase-out could involve a total smoking ban for all children born after 2001.“In that case, young Australians aged 15 this year might never be allowed to smoke, which would boot.”a descent path towards the end of the cigarette scourge“, added Professor Dunn. Without this measure, the president of the NGO indeed fears that future generations will have to pay the debts and the diseases related to the cigarette.
The neutral package has existed since 2012 in Australia
Australia is a country already very virulent when it comes to tobacco: the plain packet has been marketed there since 2012, the best-selling packet of cigarettes costs 26.50 Australian dollars (nearly 17 euros) and this price is expected to increase each year. year of 12.5% from September 2017. On May 31, 2015, on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day, the Cancer Council Queensland also called on universities and other higher education institutions to become completely non-smoking. In France, with 78,000 deaths per year, tobacco remains the leading cause of death. the neutral packagehas just entered into force among manufacturers and should soon arrive in tobacco shops. Moreover, a recent survey conducted on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day has shown that 80% of smokers need on average two attempts to quit.
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