{"id":18207,"date":"2021-12-11T19:31:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T00:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=18207"},"modified":"2021-12-11T19:31:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T00:31:03","slug":"new-zealand-phasing-out-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/new-zealand-phasing-out-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand phasing out smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand has a unique and bold plan to phase out smoking. The smoking age will be raised every year &#8212; until it covers the entire population. Here&#8217;s <strong>The Damage Report<\/strong> on this topic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JYY0l8KA-8E\">New Zealand Phases Out Cigarettes In Country-Wide Ban<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The video then moves on to a second topic, which is also interesting: the UAE is moving to a 4.5 day work week.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully both of these plans, or similar ones, will be taken up by other countries.<\/p>\n<p>The video then moves on to a third topic, which until now would have been science fictional. Plans are afoot to build &#8220;Earth&#8217;s black box,&#8221; which will theoretically survive some event that destroys humanity. It will gather information from the internet. At the moment the drives inside will only last 30-50 years, but they will eventually improve that. This is another terrific idea: anyone who comes along after humanity could learn something from our mistakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand has a unique and bold plan to phase out smoking. The smoking age will be raised every year &#8212; until it covers the entire population. Here&#8217;s The Damage Report on this topic: New Zealand Phases Out Cigarettes In Country-Wide Ban The video then moves on to a second topic, which is also interesting: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[76,25,50],"class_list":["post-18207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-future","tag-health","tag-smoking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18208,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18207\/revisions\/18208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}