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"I don't think the New Zealand authorities have fully understood the consequence of our situation, and what's caused it," he says

It included dramatically reducing the legal amount of nicotine in tobacco products, allowing their sale only through special tobacco stores, and slashing the number of stores legally allowed to sell cigarettes from 6,000 to just 600 nationwide

Luxon said his government would continue to lower smoking rates through education and other smoking policies

Importing cigarettes without paying the excise duty is illegal, and offenders can be charged with defrauding customs revenue

The laws were due to be implemented from July 2024

Public Health investigators helped companies producing affected food to identify what and where contamination occurred