New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts
New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts
Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives
Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives
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Seems like a good thing to me. Let people decide for themselves, it's not the government's job to tell them what they can and can't put in their body.
10 13 ReplyAgree with this. All the pro weed and pro other drug people need to realize they are making the opposite argument to support banning smoking. All substances carry some intrinsic risk and the externalities must be managed, but its up to consenting adults to make their own choices about what they will consume.
5 0 ReplyIt literally is the government's job. That's the whole point of the FDA.
7 3 ReplyI think they're making a statement about the proper role of goverment, not what it currently does.
And in NZ it's the Ministry of Health.
4 0 ReplyFDA's job is to tell corporations what they can and can't put in your body. You're still welcome to seek out those poisons and consume them. Cigarettes should be no different.
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2 0 ReplyTo maintain infrastructure.
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2 0 ReplyYes, paid for by the exorbitant taxes on cigarettes.
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2 1 ReplyI think you missed something. Banning cigarettes takes money away from healthcare, it doesn't put more into it.
Smokers wind up paying almost 10x what they cost the system over their lives. Banning that income will only make things worse.
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1 1 ReplyExcept they also have to step on your rights, and body autonomy in order to do so.
Let me aak you this as well... Do you support the war on drugs?
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1 1 ReplyWhether or not they have the right, was never the argument here, it's always been about whether they should or not.
Dodging my question because it backs you into a corner really doesn't help your side either.
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