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New Zealand imposes lifetime ban on youth buying cigarettes

A smoker puffs on a cigarette in the central business district in Auckland, New Zealand. [AP Photo]

New Zealand on Tuesday passed into law a unique plan to phase out tobacco smoking by imposing a lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes.

The law states that tobacco can't ever be sold to anybody born on or after January 1, 2009.

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