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New Zealand's world-first smokefree legislation 'goes up in smoke': a setback in ending the tobacco epidemic (www.sciencedirect.com)
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Highlights

  • Aotearoa New Zealand formerly enacted revolutionary tobacco control measures
  • Reforms included introducing a generational ban on tobacco products
  • To achieve an equitable smokefree future, Māori leadership and partnership were critical in implementing effective tobacco control measures
  • The planned smokefree reform was repealed by the sixth National-led coalition government
  • Economic concerns, autonomy, and potential illicit tobacco trade were key justifications for the repeal
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[–] YourPrivatHater@ani.social -2 points 4 months ago

Uh... The guns are illegal because you shoot others, thats the purpose of a gun.

And if we go by your standards sugar should be illigal, caffeine should be illegal, being fat should be illegal, not doing daily workout for health should be punishable, having mental illness would be illegal and so on.

Your argument is idiotic.

Most smokers are more healthy than the average fat person. Being fat is worse than smoking, and yet being fat isn't banned shure they cost the health insurance money, but so does everyone else that isn't living a perfectly healthy lifestyle...