New Zealand will ban smoking for entire next generation and beyond

[Purplecat]

As I said before.

New Zealand aiming to be "smoke free" by 2025

Aiming towards full prohibition is a mistake. Every single other attempt at prohibition has resulted in a black market controlled by violent criminals and an increase in harms. At this point, tobacco smoking is best left to die out naturally, as a combination of high taxation, vaping and health programmes to get people to quit has put the practice into a terminal decline. If the end result is making tobacco a marginal product only used by a tiny minority, rather than eliminating it entirely, th…