This doesn't really change that much, our government has greatly minimised smoking by increasing the excise tax on tobacco by a large amount annually. Every ti

This doesn't really change that much, our government has greatly minimised smoking by increasing the excise tax on tobacco by a large amount annually. Every time the tax increase kicked in, the number of people accessing funded support for quitting spikes. The Ministry of Health even encourages smokers to switch to vaping, which I thought is rather pragmatic in an age where people in NZ treat vaping as equivalent to smoking in terms of unpleasantness and the correspondingly expected politeness - don't vape near children, ensure your vapour doesn't blow onto other people, only vape outside, and even then, many outside areas in a hospitality business are designated smoking/vaping free. Very few young people are taking up cigarettes, I have four teenaged sons, and in all their friendship circles, there's a total of two smokers. But, that leads me to our current problem is, we kinda screwed the pooch on how vaping entered the market, and how it was/wasn't regulated, and that's what all the cool kids are getting addicted to these days instead of ciggies. So yeah. This policy won't change much, as the existing mechanisms have been rather effective.