MrsFychan

just heard on the news by 2025. so guessing that question will be added to the immigration forms

LauraNotts

I very much doubt we'll be smoke free by then but it's a good public heath measure to aim for.

Bo-Jangles

People will just grow their own; after all weed and other drugs are illegal but there appears to be no shortage in the supply chain or users.

Perhaps once they have got the smoking thing all sussed, they will find the guts to take a similarly hard line with alcohol.

Tom H

Didn't they say a few years ago that by 2025 it'll be 50 dollars a pack of cigarettes??? Think it was 2012 they said that would be their target???

MrsFychan

no they reckon $30 in 2 year, if that makes it $50 by 2015 then Yeh

MrsFychan

where are they going to get the lost revenue? don't think they will do much on alcohol

Bo-Jangles

I might suggest they could recover quite a bit of it with additional taxes on the breakfast of Kiwi champions: L&P, Pies and KFC

nikkijane88

We are apparently on track to be smoke free. Plus with a current trip in the uk... I cannot wait to get home! Where I can walk along the streets and not constantly be avoiding people smoking.

Justcol

Its going to be very very hard on the smokers

Its OK saying this n that and price them out,
The reality of stopping smoking is a nightmare,
and for some its simply not going to happen.
Chewing a bit of gum or sucking a lozenge isn't
going to work for everyone

Charismatic

E-cigarette? A USB device that in one go has done what governments couldn't with millions of dollars of marketing, lowering the coolness of smoking to a level previously only achieved by monocles and whichs use insights the same level of shame as your mum pulling out your baby album when your hot new girlfriend comes around for Sunday dinner.

It'll be a pity to see smoking go however it's had such a profound impact on our culture, we are not to be trusted with pleasure it seems .