This ODT editorial helpfully summarises the hypocrisy of the Aotearoa New Zealand government's decision to put nicotine and young people in the same room and use the resulting tax revenue to give more money to the rich. https://graph.org/Smokers-to-the-rescue-11-27
I remember a lecturer saying that every declining civilisation sacrifices its children in one way or another to stave off collapse. Here we are again.
There are outrageous ways to respond to this outrage. I'm considering my options.
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