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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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[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (9 children)

The leading Māori public health organisation, Hāpai te Hauora, said the reversal will be “catastrophic for Māori communities”.

It's not a good idea to tell conservatives how policies would potentially harm the vulnerable, the poor, the excluded.

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[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This article uncovers an awful cancer of the platform: There are way too many who buy any conservative narrative if you frame it as freedom.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It was a cowardly way to enact a law.

[–] MetaCubed@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

What exactly do you mean by this?

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[–] Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

New Zealand, highly conservative about drug use, driving, security and relationships, yet will also go to ridiculous lengths to show how cleaning with a wet mop could be better than with a broom, or using one extra layer of building paper is absolutely essential for the structural integrity of the very work flow process that the entire company follows and is actually part of the new management SIX SIGMA protocol.

Me: "dude, don't do it, the last guy who touched that broom, he got lost, we haven't seen him since, but now the brooms come back"

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[–] hottari@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

LOL. This is funny AF.

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