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Re:New Zealand to ban cigarettes for future generations by viraptor on Thursday December 09, 2021 @06:24AM (#29496214)
> you educate the people through advertising campaigns and whatnot

Keep in mind that the smoking industry can and will outspend almost any government on product advertisement and available information, unless laws forbid it. We had a time of "your doctor recommends smoking [brand X]" already. Let's not enable that again.

Re:New Zealand to ban cigarettes for future generations by belval on Friday December 10, 2021 @05:55PM (#29516498)
To me that's part of advertising campaigns though. I am young enough that tobacco company were effectively never allowed to advertise their product anywhere in my country for as long as I was in it.