{"id":24371,"date":"2021-03-04T14:56:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T19:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=24371"},"modified":"2021-03-04T14:56:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T19:56:08","slug":"vaping-news-new-zealand-tobacco-tax-revenue-plummets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/24371","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: NEW ZEALAND [Tobacco Tax Revenue Plummets]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"alc89-0-0\">&#8220;Tobacco tax revenue has fallen by almost half as Kiwis kick the smoking habit. The accounts show revenue from customs and excise duty fell almost $700 million compared to the same period the previous year. New Zealand Taxpayers\u2019 Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke said the Government should allow the downward trend in tax takings to continue. \u201cInstead, new regulations currently being considered by the Director-General of Health threaten to keep New Zealanders on the durries.&#8221; Under a proposed law change, sales of vaping products to under-18s would be banned, flavours restricted and vapers barred from lighting up in smoke-free areas.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK:\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/business\/124435203\/tobacco-tax-revenue-plunges-as-kiwis-kick-the-habit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tobacco tax revenue plunges as Kiwis kick the habit<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"VAPING%20NEWS%3A%20NEW%20ZEALAND%20%5BTobacco%20Tax%20Revenue%20Plummets%5D\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tobacco tax revenue has fallen by almost half as Kiwis kick the smoking habit. The accounts show revenue from customs and excise duty fell almost&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaping-news","wpcat-147-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24372,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24371\/revisions\/24372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}