English lesson New Zealand’s Plan to End Smoking

New Zealand's Plan to End Smoking

New Zealand's Plan to End Smoking

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What is the audio about?

The production of cigarettes

The amount of young people who smoke in New Zealand

A new smoking law in New Zealand

The health issues of people who smoke in New Zealand

New Zealand's Plan to End Smoking

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New Zealand's government believes it has come up with a unique plan to end tobacco smoking: a lifetime ban for those aged 14 or younger.

Under a new law the government announced Thursday and plans to pass next year, the minimum age to buy cigarettes would keep rising year after year.

Because the current minimum age to buy cigarettes in New Zealand is 18, the lifetime smoking ban for youth wouldn't have an impact for a few years. but in theory, 65 years after the law takes effect, shoppers could only buy cigarettes if they could prove they were at least 80 years old.

In practice, officials hope smoking will fade away decades before then. Indeed, the plan sets a goal of having fewer than 5% of New Zealanders smoking by 2025.

Other parts of the plan include allowing only the sale of tobacco products with very low nicotine levels and slashing the number of stores that can sell them. The changes would be brought in overtime to help retailers adjust.

Vocabulary:

Fade away - to go away slowly

Slashing - reducing

youth - young people

Unique - one of a kind

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What is the current minimum age for smoking in New Zealand?

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What do the New Zealand government hope will happen in the near future?

smoking will disappear

retailers will be able to sell cigarettes with less tobacco

only 5% of people will smoke

people will smoke when they are older

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Except for the age raises, what else does the new law contain? CHOOSE 2

Less shops will sell cigarettes

cigarettes with less nicottine

cigarettes will be sold to people over 80

people can only by cigarettes from other countries

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Why will the law not come into effect straight way?

retailers need time to make the changes

new cigarettes need to be made

smoking rates need to fall

teens need to get older

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Fill in the gaps: slashing, unique, youth, fade away

New Zealand's Plan to End Smoking

New Zealand's government believes it has come up with a plan to end tobacco smoking: a lifetime ban for those aged 14 or younger.

Under a new law the government announced Thursday and plans to pass next year, the minimum age to buy cigarettes would keep rising year after year.

Because the current minimum age to buy cigarettes in New Zealand is 18, the lifetime smoking ban for wouldn't have an impact for a few years. but in theory, 65 years after the law takes effect, shoppers could only buy cigarettes if they could prove they were at least 80 years old.

In practice, officials hope smoking will decades before then. Indeed, the plan sets a goal of having fewer than 5% of New Zealanders smoking by 2025.

Other parts of the plan include allowing only the sale of tobacco products with very low nicotine levels and the number of stores that can sell them. The changes would be brought in overtime to help retailers adjust.

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