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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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[–] IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Tobacco lobbyists pay shitloads of money to conservatives and their causes.