• Icaria@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    NZ already did this and it is the most cowardly way to avoid political blowback.

    There’s plenty of other options for minimising smoking. A more altruistic way is by lifting people out of poverty and tackling social disintegration, since smokers are overwhelmingly poor and disaffected.

    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      So instead of reducing a clearly destructive habit now we should wait for a major social change that likely won’t happen. I don’t see how that is more altruistic for the “poor and disaffected”.