stopthatgirl7 to World News@lemmy.ml • 6 months agoNew Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cutswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square164fedilinkarrow-up1508arrow-down17file-textcross-posted to: hackernews@derp.fooworld@lemmy.worldworld@lemmy.world
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Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives
minus-squareXbSuperlinkfedilinkEnglish0•6 months agoYes, paid for by the exorbitant taxes on cigarettes.
minus-squareXbSuperlinkfedilinkEnglish0•6 months agoI 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.
minus-squareXbSuperlinkfedilinkEnglish0•6 months agoExcept 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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To maintain infrastructure.
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Yes, paid for by the exorbitant taxes on cigarettes.
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I 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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Except 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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