# New Zealand enacts the Smokefree Environments smoked-tobacco amendment, including a smokefree generation

Date: 2022

## The fact

In December 2022 the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Act received royal assent, cutting retailers, nicotine, and creating a smokefree generation.

## Context

Aukati Kaipaipa / Māori health advocates supported. Retailers opposed. [Hipkins](/people/chris-hipkins) was COVID then incoming PM; she was still PM at assent. Later repeal is [Christopher Luxon](/people/christopher-luxon)’s government’s instrument, stored elsewhere. Do not erase the 2022 Act because it was later repealed.

Resignation 19 January 2023 is not this statute. Conversion-practices Act is a different rights file.

A New Zealand prime minister chairs Cabinet and can recommend orders and bills. The House enacts. Police, DHBs, MIQ contractors, and platform companies implement. That office is not authorship of WHO guidance, Australian law, or a later successor’s repeal.

## Evidence and sources

New Zealand Parliamentary Counsel Office carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

Public-health path from a completed smoked-tobacco statute.

## What is established and what is not

Established: The 2022 smoked-tobacco amendment was enacted in December 2022.

Not established: A unique 2022 smoking-prevalence point from assent, or that the later repeal never happened.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

A later National-led government repealed it. Repeal is a different Fact and a different person.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies New Zealand enacts the Smokefree Environments smoked-tobacco amendment, including a smokefree generation, not a later speech about New Zealand enacts the Smokefree Environments smoked-tobacco amendment, including a smokefree generation.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. New Zealand enacts the Smokefree Environments smoked-tobacco amendment, including a smokefree generation on 2022-12-16 is not a licence to treat every later New Zealand Parliamentary Counsel Office communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average New Zealand enacts the Smokefree Environments smoked-tobacco amendment, including a smokefree generation into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Her government passed the Act in December 2022 while she was still prime minister. A later National-led government repealed it. Repeal is a different Fact and a different person. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Jacinda Ardern: https://factrail.ai/people/jacinda-ardern

## Drivers

- Health-System Capacity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/health-system-capacity

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/new-zealand-passes-world-first-smokefree-generation-law-2022-12-13/
- https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2022/0079/latest/LMS619686.html

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/nz-smokefree-amendment-act-2022