Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives

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Yes, paid for by the exorbitant taxes on cigarettes.

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I think you missed something. Banning cigarettes takes money away from healthcare, it doesn’t put more into it.

Smokers wind up paying almost 10x what they cost the system over their lives. Banning that income will only make things worse.

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