Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives

Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives

          • WoodlandAlliance@lemm.ee
            21·
            10 months ago

            So if banning cigarettes would support healthcare infrastructure, based on what you just told me that would be the government’s responsibility.

            • XbSuper@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              10 months ago

              I think you missed something. Banning cigarettes takes money away from healthcare, it doesn’t put more into it.

              Smokers wind up paying almost 10x what they cost the system over their lives. Banning that income will only make things worse.

              • WoodlandAlliance@lemm.ee
                11·
                10 months ago

                Cigarettes cause health problems, therefore banning them lowers the strain on a healthcare system.

                If the issue is truly just financial there are other ways to get that money.

                • XbSuper@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  11·
                  10 months ago

                  Except they also have to step on your rights, and body autonomy in order to do so.

                  Let me aak you this as well… Do you support the war on drugs?

                  • WoodlandAlliance@lemm.ee
                    11·
                    10 months ago

                    You’re changing the topic. The government has the right to ban cigarettes because they have the right to support healthcare infrastructure.

                    Whether or not they should ban them is a whole separate topic.