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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    11 months ago

    Nope. @Landsharkgun is right. Zealand already has some of the highest tobacco taxes in the world. Tobacco is incredibly expensive here.

    What happens is the addicts spend all their money on insanely expensive tobacco and their kids go hungry.

    These laws came after years and years of rising prices, massive taxation, plain packs with disgusting health warnings, free nicotine patches and free gum for anyone who wants to quit.

    It has been working too. Our smoking rates are way down.

    I’m really disappointed that we did the hard yards on this and now these turkeys are going to dismantle over a decade’s worth of work and bring a whole new generation into lung cancer land.