Re:New Zealand passes legislation banning cigarettes for fut...
by Gatsky on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @02:48PM
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Ah well sure but when the smoking rates drop low enough, smoking related healthcare costs greatly exceed the cigarette tax receipts. NZ is a small country and needs to contain the costs of its socialised healthcare. Is there a fundamental ‘right to give money to Tobacco companies’? Buying cigarettes is banned, smoking isn’t.
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Re:New Zealand passes legislation banning cigarettes for fut...
by arghnoname on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @03:02PM
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I'm not a utilitarian because I think there are many things that we should do that can't be justified with a straight-forward look at the bottom line. Judging things this way can end with things that are pretty ethically dubious, e.g., forced abortion for fetuses with condition X, where X may be various levels of impairment whereby the resulting human is not profitable.
Re:New Zealand passes legislation banning cigarettes for fut...
by Gatsky on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @03:15PM
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Agreed, but the OP is obviously unconvinced by the moral observation that Big Tobacco hack people’s brains for profit while externalising the costs to society.
Re:New Zealand passes legislation banning cigarettes for fut...
by petre on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @02:27AM
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Is one allowed to plant their own tobacco if they're inclined to do so? What about other tobacco products like rolling tobacco? Is that banned from sale as well?
Re:New Zealand passes legislation banning cigarettes for fut...
by Gatsky on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @04:56AM
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The bill says that sale of smoked tobacco products will be prohibited if the recipient was born after 2009-01-01. Just giving them a smoked tobacco product is also illegal if it occurs in a public place.