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Russia considers banning sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2015

───   06:55 Sun, 15 Jan 2017

Russia considers banning sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2015 | News Article

The Russian health ministry has unveiled plans to ban the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2015. The radical move would make Russia the first country to take such a stringent anti-tobacco stance

Aside from meddling in the United States election, there’s another thing the Russian Federation seems to be worrying a lot about these days: cigarette smoking.


Russia’s smoking rates are some of the highest in the world, according to the World Health Organization. Now the Russian government, a big fan of banning things, is going to try and ban citizens born after 2015 from buying cigarettes. This would be one of the world’s strictest smoking bans, and Bhutan was the only other nation I could find that outlawed cigarette sales completely.


The ban proposal obtained by Russian newspaper Izvestia would go into effect in 2033, when the affected Russian citizens (now babies) turn eighteen years old. Russia’s legal smoking age is eighteen, so the law would ensure that those born in 2015 and later could never legally purchase cigarettes. It comes as part of a broader effort to combat smoking from 2017 to 2022 and beyond, according to the Izvestia report. The goal is to lower the country’s smoking rate to 25 percent by 2025, and to drive it down even further later. The proposal also claims that tobacco consumption fell from 39 percent in 2009 to 33 percent in 2016.


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