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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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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

How very evil of them. I personally don't think smoking, or any other substances should be banned. But they just admitted they think they should be banned, but won't ban them because they'd rather have the money. Exchanging people's lives for profit.