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Have we reached the point where the government should ban smoking altogether, or is smoking a human right and it is up to the individual to choose?
New Zealand has begun a move towards a TOTAL ban on tobacco. New Zealand lawmakers are imposing a full smoking ban by 2025, and the law will prevent residents born after 2004 from buying cigarettes at all.
Tayo reminisces that a similarly misguided effort to force people to quit drinking alcohol in the United States propelled the malevolent criminal organisation, the Mafia, to new potency, in the process corrupting politicians, judges and police forces wholesale. Ultimately, America abandoned the failed enterprise of the prohibition, and everyone - except, it seems, the New Zealand legislature - learnt the bitter lesson that it is impossible to force people to abandon addictions. Tayo further questions the ethics and morals of what he sees as a serious human rights violation. Aren't adults allowed to make up their own minds on how they treat their bodies (as long as they're not hurting anybody else?) Do New Zealanders still live in a free country?
Tony - well, you can probably guess what Tony says if you've followed the TNT Talk Show for any length of time.Β
Listen to the boys go toe-to-toe over this vexed issue.
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