The Health Committee is seeking public submissions on the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Bill. The Government has the goal of reducing daily smoking rates to less than 5 percent across all population groups by 2025. The bill aims to achieve the Smokefree 2025 goal and improve health outcomes by amending the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990 and the Customs and Excise Act 2018. The amendments focus on changing the smoking environment rather than influencing consumer behaviour.

The bill seeks to significantly limit the number of retailers able to sell smoked tobacco products and reduce the appeal and addictiveness of smoked tobacco products. It would enable limits to be set on the quantity of nicotine levels and other ingredients of these products. The bill also aims to prevent young people from taking up smoking. It would do this by prohibiting the sale of smoked tobacco products to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009.

Tell the Health Committee what you think

Make a submission on the bill by 11.59pm on Wednesday 24 August 2022.

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