Originally Posted by
Blue Skies
Year 10 school kids & adolescents often don't make 'good choices'.
The numbers of school age kids taking up smoking has been trending downwards & research shows if young people don't start smoking before the age of 25 yrs, they are unlikely to ever start.
Repealing the Smokefree 2025 Action Plan will be welcomed by the tobacco companies whose business model relies on getting young new customers addicted to replace the more than 5,000 per year, 13 per day who are dying in NZ from smoking related causes.
It's beyond belief, an outrage this coalition govt could repeal this legislation in the year 2023/24!