Flashermac Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 If you’re a smoker in New Zealand, you may need cash to burn. The country’s Minister of Health is suggesting that the price of cigarettes be raised to nearly $100 (in New Zealand dollars) a pack ($81 U.S.) by the year 2020, according to document discovered by the country’s news agencies, reports Sky News. The proposal is part of a plan to stamp out smoking by the year 2025. The plan, which is still in a discussion phase, would jack up the price of a pack of cigarettes to $60 ($49 U.S.) and then raise the price 10% each following year. The pricey plan is among an array of options that the government is mulling in order to reduce the health risks associated with tobacco. A less expensive option on the table is a 10% increase on a pack of 20 cigarettes year-on-year from 2013 to 2025, meaning it would cost $40 ($32.50 U.S.) a pack by 2024. The ministry also discussed the idea of regulating tobacco as a highly toxic substance, banning smoking in cars with children, and removing tobacco from duty-free sales. "If we are to continue to lower smoking prevalence we need to both increase the numbers who successfully quit smoking, and reduce smoking initiation among young people,†the ministry wrote in the proposal. Of the country’s 4.2 million population, approximately 650,000 identify themselves as smokers. One of the top goals would be to get young people to stop picking up the habit. Young adults tend to begin lighting up between the ages 14 to 24. My link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Whilst I've just given up (again) this is the Nanny state I've left, they'll be banning sugar next... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horneytorney Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 so what is the current price then in New Zealand? luckily I just quit last sunday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 I think it was about 12-15 NZD when I left Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgianBoy Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 they should double it to $ 200 per pack ! why allow cancereous products at all ? BB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horneytorney Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 yes, ban cancerous products like beer, chocolate, mussles and clams.. any food item left for Belgium to export? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgianBoy Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 sure there are more foods, but that is here not the subject. and the mussles are from Holland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Hi, yes, ban cancerous products like beer, chocolate, mussles and clams.. any food item left for Belgium to export? Uh... chocolate does not cause cancer, it may actually help *prevent* it. link Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted April 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 << A compound found only in hops and the main product they are used in - beer - has rapidly gained interest as a micronutrient that might help prevent many types of cancer. Researchers at Oregon State University first discovered the cancer-related properties of this flavonoid compound called xanthohumol about 10 years ago. A recent publication by an OSU researcher in the journal Phytochemistry outlines the range of findings made since then. And many other scientists in programs around the world are also beginning to look at the value of these hops flavonoids for everything from preventing prostate or colon cancer to hormone replacement therapy for women. "Xanthohumol is one of the more significant compounds for cancer chemoprevention that we have studied," said Fred Stevens, a researcher with OSU's Linus Pauling Institute and an assistant professor of medicinal chemistry in the College of Pharmacy. "The published literature and research on its properties are just exploding at this point, and there's a great deal of interest." Quite a bit is now known about the biological mechanism of action of this compound and the ways it may help prevent cancer or have other metabolic value. But even before most of those studies have been completed, efforts are under way to isolate and market it as a food supplement. A "health beer" with enhanced levels of the compound is already being developed. "We can't say that drinking beer will help prevent cancer," Stevens said. "Most beer has low levels of this compound, and its absorption in the body is also limited. But if ways can be developed to significantly increase the levels of xanthohumol or use it as a nutritional supplement - that might be different. It clearly has some interesting cancer chemopreventive properties, and the only way people are getting any of it right now is through beer consumption." Xanthohumol was actually first discovered in 1913, isolated as a yellow substance found in hops. Researchers started studying its molecular structure in the 1950s, but for decades the only people who showed any real interest in it were brewers, who were trying to learn more about how hops help impart flavor to beer. ... >> My link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobbledonk Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 I'd have no problems with a ban on tobacco products and sugar - I just cant see it working. Way too many addicts and way too much money in keeping those addicts happy - in some respects, it would be easier to ban alcohol. The history of prohibition just isnt a happy one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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