New Zealand's plan to end smoking: A lifetime ban for youth New Zealand passed a lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes to phase out tobacco smoking on Tuesday (December 13). People born on or after January 1, 2009, cannot purchase tobacco. As New Zealand Scraps World's First Generational Smoking Ban Ban cigarette sales by 2025 and encourage vaping to hit smoke free goal, New Zealand MPs told South China Morning Post UK smoking ban explained from vape rules to 'black market' and New Zealand u turn The Mirror