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New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts (www.theguardian.com)

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Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives

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[–] SangersSequence@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Smoking is awful, disgusting, and through the diseases it causes puts a massive burden on the healthcare system... buuuut, educational campaigns to encourage people to stop and limiting it in media/banning advertisements is definitely the way to go over yet another prohibition law.

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Education means doing nothing. It literally is the status quo which we know does not work.

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