Denmark has revealed plans to ensure that future generations are tobacco-free and is considering banning the sale of cigarettes and other nicotine products to anyone born after 2010.
“Our hope is that everyone born in 2010 and beyond will never start smoking or using nicotine-based products,” Health Minister Magnus Heunicke told a news conference.
“If necessary, we are ready to ban the sale (of these products) to this generation by progressively raising the age limit,” he said.
Under current legislation, Danes must be 18 years old to buy cigarettes or e-cigarettes.
According to the Ministry of Health, about 31% of young people aged 15 to 29 smoke.
Official figures also show that smoking is the leading cause of cancer in the Nordic country of 5.8 million inhabitants and responsible for 13,600 deaths per year.
A survey commissioned by the Danish Cancer Society showed that 64% of the people surveyed were in favor of the Danish government's plan and that 67% of those people were between the ages of 18 and 34.
The Danish measure partly emulates a pioneering plan to ban the sale of tobacco announced in December by the New Zealand government, which aims to progressively raise the minimum age for buying cigarettes from 2027
Other measures included reducing the legal amount of nicotine in tobacco products to very low levels, eliminating stores where cigarettes could be legally sold, and increasing funding for addiction services.
In Denmark, the Social Democratic government said it also plans to address alcohol consumption among young people.
To that end, it will begin by raising the legal age for the purchase of beverages with less than 16.5% alcohol from 16 to 18 years.
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