With the EU states still split over the adoption of plain packs, the small state of Tasmania is steadfastly forging ahead. Its future law to ban tobacco sales to anyone born after 2000 is currently being examined in the Legislative Council (upper house). The radical aim is to create a tobacco-free generation in this Australian state that currently registers the highest rate of smoking in the country.
As salutary as the measure may be, it raises countless issues in the…