Russian Leaders Want To Ban Smoking For People Born After 2015

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Tobacco-prevention efforts could help the world economy save trillions in healthcare and lost productivity each year, the World Health Organization (WHO) notes, and Russian lawmakers hope to stamp out the habit for the country's next generation while it's still in diapers.

Gizmodo reported yesterday that a proposal by Russian government would impose a total smoking ban starting in 2033, when now-toddlers born in 2015 would otherwise be legally able to purchase tobacco. According to the website, the stringent move would serve as the final step in a plan to bring the country's smoking rate down to 25% by 2025, paving the way for even further drops.

The proposal, outlined by the Russian newspaper Izvestia, also suggests that Russia's particularly high smoking rates are already sinking, with a reported 6% dip bringing its national rate down to 33% in the past 7 years. Last month, the Russian Federation's Ministry of Health and the WHO's office in Russia hosted a two-day conference on international and sub-federal tobacco control issues as part of an ongoing effort to address the hazardous habit.

A Moscow student lights a cigarette between lectures Tuesday February 18, 2003. (Photo credit: Dmitry Beliakov/Bloomberg News.

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Stan Lee Introduces Augmented Reality For His Kids Nevertheless, the proposed ban could prove to be a blunt instrument, so to speak, if and when precision is called for. Gizmodo noted that Russian politicians have raised concerns about the ban's potential to stoke counterfeit tobacco operations and to be frankly tough to enforceConsidering smoking's massive social and financial toll, it's understandable for government to feel the urge to put its foot down; when it comes to stamping out an entire nation's cigarettes, though, this approach could take a while.

Russian Leaders Want To Ban Smoking For People Born After 2015. Via Forbes

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