New Zealand has set up a steadily rising age limit for smoking so that those now 14 and younger will forever be unable to legally buy cigarettes under the world's first legislation banning smoking for the outgoing generation.Deputy Health Minister Ayesha Verrol said at the passage of the law on Tuesday: "Thousands of people will live longer and will be stronger, and the health system will receive 5 billion dollars of money, as they will not need to treat such smoking-stricken non-woes as countless cancers, heart attacks, strokes, amputations."As the Guardian notes, New Zealand can be considered the first locality in the world to have a rising smoking age every year, ensuring that tobacco wi... [Read more]