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Anger over New Zealand’s U-turn on smoking ban: Health experts say they are ‘appalled’ by ‘purely political’ move – as Rishi Sunak vows to press ahead with law to stop kids aged 14 now from ever buying cigarettes

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Plans by New Zealand’s new government to ditch its world-first smoking ban were today attacked by health experts. 

The move, to stop children from taking up the habit, was initially introduced by ex-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in 2022. Once implemented next year, anyone born after 2008 would have been banned from ever buying cigarettes.

New Zealand’s new prime minister, Christopher Luxon, said the U-turn would fund tax cuts.

But public health experts said the reversal was ‘extremely concerning’, warning the

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New Zealand’s active volcano that still threatens to devastate country | Science | News

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New Zealand: Smoke billows from volcano on White Island

Mount Tarawera has been touted as one of New Zealand’s first-ever tourist hotspots.

The geothermal Rotorua region is peppered with hot springs which are fed by the locality’s hidden volcanic bed, a vast pool of magma sitting just below the surface.

Silica terraces which over hundreds of years formed tumbling pools, staircases and waterfalls filled with warm, mineral-rich waters were destroyed in the major 1886 eruption that wiped out much of

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