The Maldives, where about a fifth of the population uses tobacco, is the first country to institute a generational smoking ban.

Maldives becomes the first nation to enact a generational smoking ban, prohibiting anyone born after Jan. 1, 2007, from ...

Anyone born on or after 1 January 2007 will be banned from using, buying or selling tobacco products in the archipelago.

The Maldives began implementing a smoking ban Saturday on anyone born after January 2007, becoming the only nation with a ...

The Maldives began implementing a smoking ban on anyone born after January 2007, becoming the only country with a generational prohibition on tobacco, according to its health ministry ..

A new that took effect Saturday made the Maldives the first country in the world to ban tobacco use for an entire generation ...