Does New Zealand's total smoking ban infringe on human rights?

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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. 


Listen to the boys go toe-to-toe over this vexed issue.



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