New Zealand BANS smoking: Radical new laws will stop young people from EVER buying cigarettes as nation goes 'smoke-free' - so is Australia set to follow?

• Anyone aged under 14 will be banned from EVER buying cigarettes in their life
  
• Additional age groups will be added until it's illegal throughout New Zealand
  
• The target is to wipe out smoking entirely by 2025 as part of a 15-year program
  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article..._QbsuYsTUE

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Interesting approach to phasing out cigarettes. Better than a blanket ban on cigarettes that would impact lifetime smokers.

Be interesting to see if it works and what happens with illegal imports.

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I hate the idea of bans because it can be the proverbial slippery slope, but as a former smoker this doesn't twist my dials terribly bad.

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This is much easier for them to do as a small island than it ever would be for the US.

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My fellow southpaw Mark Brunell will probably always be my favorite Jaguar.

I have it from a very good source that the precautions will not fail if we're just really willing to crack down on people hard enough. Let's do it.

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I have it from a very good source that the precautions will not fail if we're just really willing to crack down on people hard enough. Let's do it.

You first statement is correct. No one is advocating your second.

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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato

You need to take your thoughts and push them further.

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You need to take your thoughts and push them further.

And you need to reign in your imagination.

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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato

What am I imagining? A world where you can just ask people to comply with every law that you think makes them 100% safe?

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I think Lennon wrote a song about that.

Imagine there are no choices... it's easy if you try.... no thinking for yourself... and then you'll never die....

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What am I imagining? A world where you can just ask people to comply with every law that you think makes them 100% safe?

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I think Lennon wrote a song about that.

Imagine there are no choices... it's easy if you try.... no thinking for yourself... and then you'll never die....

No one (here) is advocating what you're saying. You keep moving into fallacious reasoning when you try to state other people's positions for them.

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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato

You don't seem to understand the implication of your comments. Either that or you are doing a poor job of explaining yourself.

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You don't seem to understand the implication of your comments. Either that or you are doing a poor job of explaining yourself.

Or you just don't (won't?) understand.

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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato

Help me... help me Obi-Wan. Finish this sentence for me.

If people would VOLUNTARILY comply with current scientific "precautions" with regard to Covid ____% of this disease would be preventable.

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Help me... help me Obi-Wan. Finish this sentence for me.

If people would VOLUNTARILY comply with current scientific "precautions" with regard to Covid ____% of this disease would be preventable.

Here's a bit of help...you're in the wrong thread.

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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato

As a life long smoker that acknowledges my early demise as a direct reaction to my action, please wait until I’m dead for this one.

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As a life long smoker that acknowledges my early demise as a direct reaction to my action, please wait until I’m dead for this one.

If you look at their plan the total elimination action will take more years than you have left.

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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato

Sometimes I miss smoking.....until I see the price of a pack of Marlboros and I'm good. I remember when I could buy a pack at the corner store for $1.51 and that was with tax. They're $7 and change at Walmart now.

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Sometimes I miss smoking.....until I see the price of a pack of Marlboros and I'm good. I remember when I could buy a pack at the corner store for $1.51 and that was with tax. They're $7 and change at Walmart now.

That's part of the "nudge" to get people to stop smoking.

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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato