Last year, New Zealand introduced a steadily rising smoking age to stop those aged 14 and under from ever being able to legally buy cigarettes in the world-first legislation to outlaw smoking for the next generation.
National’s unaffordable tax cuts to be funded by… (checks notes) …giving more people lung cancer.
Based on the general deregulation stance, they definitely should have that policy.
But because the right wing parties have hard core Christians in their donors and MPs (including the new PM), it won’t happen.