New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy cigarettes – for life
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Re: New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy cigarettes – for life
#2Or in other words - to treat them as children, for the rest of their lives.
Re: New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy cigarettes – for life
#3The war on drugs expands.
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#4I like this.
It's certainly more possible in New Zealand than in a corporate-owned country like the USA.
Re: New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy cigarettes – for life
#5Sidestepping questions of personal freedom, I think the method here is interesting. No one will have their access to buy cigarettes taken away. Some people will never receive the access in the first place. It’s easier to not grant access than to grant it, then take it away. I wonder if this could have other legal applications.
Re: New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy cigarettes – for life
#6Do the same with murder simulating video games next pls
Re: New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy cigarettes – for life
#7Kind of missing the point, though. Why do so many Maori adults smoke? Attack the cause, not the effect.
Re: New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy cigarettes – for life
#8What happens when they grow up and make something illegal for you in return?
Re: New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy cigarettes – for life
#9I fully support this, but sadly there will be kids to whom possession and the smoking of cigarettes will be even more a sign of the utmost coolness. And, as I understand it there will be a time when a 35 year old can buy cigarettes but a 34 year old can't. That's going to be interesting.
Re: New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy cigarettes – for life
#10Sidestepping questions of personal freedom, I think the method here is interesting. No one will have their access to buy cigarettes taken away. Some people will never receive the access in the first place. It’s easier to not grant access than to grant it, then take it away. I wonder if this could have other legal applications.
I fully support the spirit of this legislation, because I'm a recovered nicotine addict and I wish I had never been granted access to nicotine when I first experimented with it.
> Some people will never receive the access in the first place
This simply isn't true. People will purchase nicotine from older people, while that's still possible, and then there will be a blossoming bootleg nicotine market.
We've seen prohibition fail enough times to know that it simply doesn't work.