[jemmyw]

I'm a New Zealander too. I don't really see that this is going to improve their tax position much. How many folks turning 16 are going to take up cigarettes over vaping?

I mean, I agree, their position is stupid and if they already had a problem where they were reversing every policy of the previous govt regardless of merit, this compounds it by taking on a broadly popular idea.

However, I'm not all that comfortable with the ban. I don't smoke, I don't want my kids to smoke... but it still doesn't sit that well with me that you aren't allowed to.

I hate that we've voted in this awful right wing coalition because Labour was underdelivering. I don't see that either big party has any answers to the problems in NZ society right now - housing everyone and being able to see a doctor in good time. They both just piss around at the edges making inconsequential changes and messing with the curriculum. So I either have to be annoyed we have a govt that wants no change at all or a govt that wants change but cannot actually implement anything.