New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts

New Zealand’s new government will scrap the country’s world-leading law to ban smoking for future generations to help pay for tax cuts – a move that public health officials believe will cost thousands of lives and be “catastrophic” for Māori communities. In 2022 the country passed pioneering…

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