Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives

    • livus@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      @IHadTwoCows

      Why don’t they tell the Maori to not smoke?

      There have been more than 10 years of targetted ads telling Maori not to smoke, appealing to specifically Maori concepts like whanau and manaaakitanga.

      What the people in this thread don’t realise is that this law was part of Smokefree Aotearoa, an initiative invented by The Maori Party (a party whose main voters are Maori) to gradually phase out smoking.

      It wasn’t an abrupt change.

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        1 year ago

        I am pretty real sure that nobody on the right is advocating to continue distributing drugs to drug addicts, but they are advocating for continuing to supply cigarettes. Can you please explain your objection to me again?