David Farrar: So much wrong in one article

Radio NZ reports:

More than 80,000 Kiwis must quit smoking before the end of the year to meet the goal of Smokefree 2025, which was launched 14 years ago.

But Professor of Public Health Chris Bullen tells The Detail that it is unlikely to happen – “I don’t believe so, sadly.

Eric Crampton: 'Prohibition' approach to smoking unlikely to succeed

Budget 2022 allocated just over $2.5 million a year, over four years, to the Customs Service to help it stop cigarette smuggling.

I wonder whether it will be enough. Prohibition is expensive to enforce, and legislation working its way through Parliament is going to be getting us awfully close to prohibition.

It is a bit of a shame. There are far better ways of encouraging harm-reduction if that were still the goal of tobacco policy.