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New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts
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It's not a good idea to tell conservatives how policies would potentially harm the vulnerable, the poor, the excluded.
One in six New Zealanders are Maori.
New Zealand electoral system is MMP
The Maori seats are sometimes pivotal. There is also a political party called The Maori Party which has sometimes been in government.
For these reasons it's important to tell the voters at large when a policy affects this particular constituency.
@IHadTwoCows
There have been more than 10 years of targetted ads telling Maori not to smoke, appealing to specifically Maori concepts like whanau and manaaakitanga.
What the people in this thread don't realise is that this law was part of Smokefree Aotearoa, an initiative invented by The Maori Party (a party whose main voters are Maori) to gradually phase out smoking.
It wasn't an abrupt change.
Why would words help?
believe it or not, the only people who actually talk like that are a few dozen deranged neckbeards on lemmy. noone in the real world acts like that
And drug addicts not to do drugs. Good idea