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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)

Seems like a good thing to me. Let people decide for themselves, it's not the government's job to tell them what they can and can't put in their body.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Agree with this. All the pro weed and pro other drug people need to realize they are making the opposite argument to support banning smoking. All substances carry some intrinsic risk and the externalities must be managed, but its up to consenting adults to make their own choices about what they will consume.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It literally is the government's job. That's the whole point of the FDA.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I think they're making a statement about the proper role of goverment, not what it currently does.

And in NZ it's the Ministry of Health.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

FDA's job is to tell corporations what they can and can't put in your body. You're still welcome to seek out those poisons and consume them. Cigarettes should be no different.