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Russia will ban the sale of cigarettes to ANYONE born after 2015 as part of health purge by Putin
Russia is to ban anyone born after 2015 from buying cigarettes as part of a long-term plan to eradicate smoking in Russia.
The proposal, which has the backing of fitness fan and non-smoker President Vladimir Putin, would make Russia the first country in the world to completely phase out tobacco.
Every year almost 400,000 Russians die of smoking-related diseases but the Tass news agency says the number of smokers has fallen from 41 percent to 31 percent in the last 10 years.
But President Putin and his advisers are keen to stamp out the habit, which is not only bad for Russians' health but also bad for their economy.
Smoking has traditionally been popular in Russia but tobacco is not grown there and, since Soviet times, it has had to be imported from Cuba, Georgia or Central Asia.
Nikolai Gerasimenko, of the Russian parliament's health committee, told The Times: 'This goal is absolutely ideologically correct.'
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said the proposed ban would require serious discussion but he said it was a genuine aspiration.
In 2015 it was reported that the Russian parliament was considering banning all women under the age of 40 from buying cigarettes.
Mothers with young children would also be forbidden to buy tobacco under proposals put forward by 42 MPs from the Russian Communist Party.
But this latest proposal, although less radical in the short-term, would have far-reaching consequences in the long term.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rn-2015-health-purge-Putin.html#ixzz4VQCtkiJ8
Russia is to ban anyone born after 2015 from buying cigarettes as part of a long-term plan to eradicate smoking in Russia.
The proposal, which has the backing of fitness fan and non-smoker President Vladimir Putin, would make Russia the first country in the world to completely phase out tobacco.
Every year almost 400,000 Russians die of smoking-related diseases but the Tass news agency says the number of smokers has fallen from 41 percent to 31 percent in the last 10 years.
But President Putin and his advisers are keen to stamp out the habit, which is not only bad for Russians' health but also bad for their economy.
Smoking has traditionally been popular in Russia but tobacco is not grown there and, since Soviet times, it has had to be imported from Cuba, Georgia or Central Asia.
Nikolai Gerasimenko, of the Russian parliament's health committee, told The Times: 'This goal is absolutely ideologically correct.'
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said the proposed ban would require serious discussion but he said it was a genuine aspiration.
In 2015 it was reported that the Russian parliament was considering banning all women under the age of 40 from buying cigarettes.
Mothers with young children would also be forbidden to buy tobacco under proposals put forward by 42 MPs from the Russian Communist Party.
But this latest proposal, although less radical in the short-term, would have far-reaching consequences in the long term.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rn-2015-health-purge-Putin.html#ixzz4VQCtkiJ8
