Last year, New Zealand introduced a steadily rising smoking age to stop those aged 14 and under from ever being able to legally buy cigarettes in the world-first legislation to outlaw smoking for the next generation.
National’s unaffordable tax cuts to be funded by… (checks notes) …giving more people lung cancer.
Really? It was a law I thought of myself as a kid because it just seemed logical and makes way more sense than sudden prohibition.
So when it became law I was pleased, because I don’t see smoking as a genuine choice for addicts. I used to live next to someone who was literally dying of emphysemia and she couldn’t give up smoking, and her self-hate and despair made a big impression on me.
another adult a day younger
It’s less stark but health changes always have an arbitrary cut off, there is always a last person to get/first person to not get. E.g last person to get old style knee replacement, first person to get new style.
Really? It was a law I thought of myself as a kid because it just seemed logical and makes way more sense than sudden prohibition.
So when it became law I was pleased, because I don’t see smoking as a genuine choice for addicts. I used to live next to someone who was literally dying of emphysemia and she couldn’t give up smoking, and her self-hate and despair made a big impression on me.
It’s less stark but health changes always have an arbitrary cut off, there is always a last person to get/first person to not get. E.g last person to get old style knee replacement, first person to get new style.