Quokka@quokk.au to World News@lemmy.world · 10 months agoNew Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cutswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1100arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: world@lemmy.worldworldnews@lemmy.ml
arrow-up198arrow-down1external-linkNew Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cutswww.theguardian.comQuokka@quokk.au to World News@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square28fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: world@lemmy.worldworldnews@lemmy.ml
Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives
minus-squarevrek@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoIf something is $20 and I buy it with $100 bill, doesn’t mean it cost me $100. Now something like the zika virus which sterilized men several years ago dud cost lives. Lives that may of been made but can no longer. That is the difference. Each death from smoking or a tsunami or a mass murderer costed years of potential life but didnt cost the whole life.
If something is $20 and I buy it with $100 bill, doesn’t mean it cost me $100.
Now something like the zika virus which sterilized men several years ago dud cost lives. Lives that may of been made but can no longer.
That is the difference. Each death from smoking or a tsunami or a mass murderer costed years of potential life but didnt cost the whole life.