WELLINGTON, New Zealand: Public health experts were taken by surprise when New Zealand’s new government announced that it would repeal the country’s world-leading anti-smoking legislation. Aiming to create New Zealand’s first “smoke-free” generation, the previous government had passed laws that would have prohibited anyone born after 2008 from buying cigarettes. The changes are now set to be wound back, drawing the ire of many, including medical practitioners and other countries who had looked to New Zealand for leadership in the fight against tobacco addiction.