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A comment on New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy cigarettes – for life. Parent comment

Re:New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy ciga... by FinanceAnon on Thursday December 09, 2021 @11:45AM (#29499619)
What if my taxes are paying for their healthcare? (I don't support completely banning smoking, but just playing devil's advocate here)
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Re:New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy ciga... by maccolgan on Thursday December 09, 2021 @12:36PM (#29500397)
What if a billionaire smoker pays for your healthcare the most? I think it's completely fair for that billionaire to also mandate that you must smoke.
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Re:New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy ciga... by lostmsu on Thursday December 09, 2021 @01:47PM (#29501278)
Then he can lobby it (and probably fail).
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Re:New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy ciga... by can16358p on Thursday December 09, 2021 @12:03PM (#29499911)
The system is wrong. Everybody should be paying for their own healthcare OR if there will be public healthcare, people who are at higher risk due to their own actions (like smoking) should not be covered by healthcare/pay an extra to be covered etc.

I definitely agree with you on someone shouldn't be paying for someone else's healthcare.

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