stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoNew Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cutswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square131fedilinkarrow-up1429arrow-down17file-textcross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
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Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives
minus-squareᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up61·2 years agoMakes you wonder how much lobbying Big Tobacco did.
minus-squareSkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up47arrow-down2·2 years agoThey just had an election and the government flipped from centre-left to centre-right. It could just be the classic conservative “our position is whatever is the opposite of the left!”
minus-squarelivus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 years agoHard to say because they are very sneaky. We do know that Big tobacco ran a fake grassroots campaign with an imaginary dairy owner front man. (“Dairy” is the New Zealand name for corner shops/ drugstores) Tagging you @AnAngryAlpaca - they may not need it but their greed didn’t get the memo.
minus-squarekaffiene@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoTheir campaign strategist was an “ex” tobacco lobbyist
Makes you wonder how much lobbying Big Tobacco did.
They just had an election and the government flipped from centre-left to centre-right. It could just be the classic conservative “our position is whatever is the opposite of the left!”
Hard to say because they are very sneaky. We do know that Big tobacco ran a fake grassroots campaign with an imaginary dairy owner front man. (“Dairy” is the New Zealand name for corner shops/ drugstores)
Tagging you @AnAngryAlpaca - they may not need it but their greed didn’t get the memo.
Their campaign strategist was an “ex” tobacco lobbyist