az04@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.ml•New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts
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1 year agoBut lower pension costs, and overall it saves money to allow people to smoke themselves to an early death. Even if you count the cost of their treatment, it’s cheaper than 20 extra years of pension payments. It’s a terrifying but sound economic policy.
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