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New Zealand’s next govt to scrap tobacco law that ban smoking for next generation (www.firstpost.com)
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National’s unaffordable tax cuts to be funded by… (checks notes) …giving more people lung cancer.

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[–] liv 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Really? It was a law I thought of myself as a kid because it just seemed logical and makes way more sense than sudden prohibition.

So when it became law I was pleased, because I don't see smoking as a genuine choice for addicts. I used to live next to someone who was literally dying of emphysemia and she couldn't give up smoking, and her self-hate and despair made a big impression on me.

another adult a day younger

It's less stark but health changes always have an arbitrary cut off, there is always a last person to get/first person to not get. E.g last person to get old style knee replacement, first person to get new style.