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Smokers are less likely to be obese and vehicle crashes are still a leading cause of death. Seems like this is more about pushing morals than promoting long an
by m0llusk 5y ago
Smokers are less likely to be obese and vehicle crashes are still a leading cause of death. Seems like this is more about pushing morals than promoting long and worthwhile lives.
- squarefoot 5y agoSmoking is also expensive. I smoked for about 20 years before quitting, and the amount of money I could save by not wasting it in cigarettes was quite high. Just speculating, but might be that the NZ govt could be willing to ban the dependency on something that is imported so that people will have more money to spend in local products, hence fueling their economy.
- FridayoLeary 5y agoImport tax would solve that.
- tuatoru 5y agoNot allowed under WTO rules.
- Something1234 5y agoHow would an import tax be disallowed? Every country has weird tariffs and whatnot.
- unmole 5y ago> Smoking is also expensive. Smoking is expensive because of local consumption and sin taxes.
- impendingchange 5y agoThe science says otherwise.
- bscphil 5y ago> Smokers are less likely to be obese Yes, but if you have a choice between being a normal body weight and being a non-smoker, you should choose the latter. In fact, the effect is so strong that it has a distorting effect on the correlation between low body weight and health. If you don't filter smokers out of your analysis, it can look like being overweight is not bad for you, or even slightly positive. See e.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27423262/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27423262/ > Seems like this is more about pushing morals than promoting long and worthwhile lives. Maybe it's both?
- rajnathani 5y agoGiven that secondhand smoking is very harmful to others, this is less about morals and should be seen as saving everyone's health/lives really. In a nutshell, smoking is a big negative externality.