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Re:New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy ciga... by lostlogin on Thursday December 09, 2021 @11:25AM (#29499312)
> the NZ experiment is more likely to make a few people extremely wealthy and not actually stop tobacco smoking

The trend is pretty good, and numbers are steadily falling. E-cigarettes have been vowing though. The below stats obviously pre-date the change announced.

https://www.health.govt.nz/publication/annual-update-key-res...

Re:New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy ciga... by stuaxo on Thursday December 09, 2021 @11:31AM (#29499422)
This is the thing, as drugs go cigarettes aren't a particularly good one.