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New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts (www.theguardian.com)

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

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why would words help?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tell them its how the colonizers are slowly eliminating their people

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

believe it or not, the only people who actually talk like that are a few dozen deranged neckbeards on lemmy. noone in the real world acts like that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And drug addicts not to do drugs. Good idea