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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"yet another prohibition"

another American projecting their domestic nonsense onto the rest of the world

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Most drugs are prohibited in most countries, throughout most of history.

You're thinking specifically of American alcohol prohibition in the 1920s. It is you who is projecting americanism.