▲ 94 ▼ New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts (www.theguardian.com) submitted 2 years ago by Marsupial@quokk.au to c/world@lemmy.world 30 comments fedilink hide all child comments Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives
[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago (2 children) You bring up a good point, what does it actually mean? If eight people have their lives shortened by a decade, is that one life lost or eight? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] XbSuper@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) None, they all had lives. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago And then they lost them permalink fedilink source parent [–] vrek@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago To make it more complicated does every decade matter the same? Does your twenty's when you are out partying matter as much as your thirty/forties when you are most profitable for your capitalist overloads? What about your nineties when you are frail of health but hopefully surrounded by loved ones? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] XbSuper@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) None, they all had lives. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago And then they lost them permalink fedilink source parent
[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago And then they lost them permalink fedilink source parent
[–] vrek@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago To make it more complicated does every decade matter the same? Does your twenty's when you are out partying matter as much as your thirty/forties when you are most profitable for your capitalist overloads? What about your nineties when you are frail of health but hopefully surrounded by loved ones? permalink fedilink source parent