The government is planning tighter tobacco control laws aiming to place new restrictions on packaging and additives. It wants to reduce the national smoking rate to less than 10 per cent by 2025 and 5 per cent by 2030. Vaping will also be targeted with new advertising rules to be included. The changes will come into laws from April next year with retailers to be given a year to comply with regulations.
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00:00 People might remember 12 years ago we led the world with our plain packaging reforms
00:06 that have since been followed by dozens of countries around the world.
00:10 But frankly we're now lagging international best practice.
00:14 Leaders are now countries like Canada and New Zealand and as a result we're advised
00:18 we're not currently on track to meet our targets for smoking reduction over the course
00:24 of this decade.
00:25 And the reason why essentially is big tobacco has adapted, they've innovated, they've been
00:30 clever and cunning about getting around the intent of the plain packaging reforms with
00:34 new ways to make their product seem appealing or even cool, particularly to young Australians.
00:40 And we're determined to take on all of those new marketing tactics and stamp them out.
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