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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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[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

But think of the savings. Early death means budget surplus from hospice saved. /s

Can someone that still has a twitter ask Dan Patrick to take one for the economy here?