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- The planned smokefree reform was repealed by the sixth National-led coalition government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
Just like it’s your choice to pay more taxes to support a healthcare system coping with a society full of downtrodden sickly nicotine addicted smokers.
We have decided that you cant own an automatic weapon because the risk to yourself and cost to society is too great. By the same logic we should ban smoking, whose cost to society, in practice, is far far greater.
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…