The rule started on November 1, 2025.
People who were born on or after January 1, 2007 cannot smoke, buy, or sell tobacco.
The government says this step will protect public health and help create a tobacco-free generation.
Smoking kills more than seven million people in the world each year, says the World Health Organization.
In 2021 about one in four adults in the Maldives used tobacco.
Even more teenagers smoked.
New Zealand planned a similar ban for people born after 2008, but the plan was later canceled.
Britain is now talking about a law to stop tobacco sales to people born after 2008.
The country already banned e-cigarettes in 2024.
It will open special clinics to help people quit smoking.
The president even offered cash rewards to islands that stop smoking completely.