Ban to stop children from ever smoking a cigarette to be introduced in Parliament

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1. I wonder if it will stay enforced. NZs new conservative govt got rid of their version as soon as they got back in. I can understand it from a public health avenue, but it’s hard to enforce what many people see as an individual choice.

2. I mean lets go further. Ban artificial sugar. That would reduce healthcare costs. Or better yet have government mandated exercise as lack of exercise has been found to be as if not more unhealthy than smoking.

3. I imagine that this new law will stop children from ever smoking a cigarette in the same way that the existing laws stop children from ever taking other drugs.

4. They just need to ban the addition of nicotine and addictive chemicals into cigarettes. Exponentially, fewer people will continue smoking after trying it. But they don’t want to go after the Corpos, so they go after the little guy.

   You are never going to stop kids from doing things. They will be more encouraged if they are specifically targeted to do the bad thing.

   Eliminate the addictive chemical and heavily fine / go after the tobacco companies, not the citizens. In a sane world, people who try to sell poison by making it addictive would all be exhiled as monsters.

5. I’m a smoker myself and that’s the one proposal I support the most. Want to end tobacco smoking? Then make it illegal for the new adults to come. Simple. Then you can continue to pressure the addicts like me, go ahead, but at least you won’t get new addicts like in a disturbing whack-a-mole game

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