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  • The planned smokefree reform was repealed by the sixth National-led coalition government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
    • Skeezix
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      1 month ago

      alcohol and sugar are already regulated to various degrees. you need to be a certain age for alcohol. you wont get served if you’re shitfaced. The cost itself is often prohibitive. Some countries have sugary drink taxes, and/or don’t allow them to be sold in school cafeterias

      • @[email protected]
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        11 month ago

        You’re so right, we should double the drinking age and raise costs 1000%. And the sugar should have a 1000% tax.

        Good thinking. this will prevent people who already make poor decisions because their brain isn’t developed yet from consuming alcohol and making the problem worse. Drunk driving being a hobby is fucking disgraceful.
        And sugar wont be is ALL of our food!

        Win-win!