New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts

thehatfox@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

Peppycito@sh.itjust.works · 11 months ago

You must really hate woodstoves and fire pits. Wait till you hear about internal combustion engines!

CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works · 11 months ago

All of those things serve a purpose. What purpose does smoking tobacco have?

lad@programming.dev · edit-2 11 months ago

And those are banned in many places, except for engines, but there are changes in that department, too

Edit: I was wrong about the ban

Peppycito@sh.itjust.works · 11 months ago

Citation needed.

lad@programming.dev · 11 months ago

Good point, I found out to be wrong: https://emoffgrid.com/woodstove-ban/

There will be no ban on wood-burning stoves in the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union.

They do try to minimize the air pollution by allowing only specific stoves and fuel, but there is no ban. Sorry for misinformation