Health Care
Revising this policy would cost up to how many lives
5,000 lives
How many of the 6000 tobacco retailers were planned to remain open in the start of the ban?
What is 600
What ban did New Zealand’s new government scrap?
What is the world-leading law to ban smoking for future generations.
Who is affected by the decrease in demand for cigarettes?
What is the tobacco companies and producers
Cigarettes are made of what kind of materials that would stay a while
What is non biodegradable materials?
If fully implemented the ban will drop mortality rates for women by what %?
22%
How much would the New Zealand government save in healthcare costs if smoking was banned?
What is $1.3 billion over the next 20 years
True or false. The law was designed to prevent thousands of smoking-related deaths and save the health system billions of dollars.
What is true.
The long-term negative impacts smoking has on health could potentially increase the workloads on?
What is hospitals and health care workers
What is air pollution, water pollution, and toxic waste?
If fully implemented the ban will drop mortality rates for Men by what %?
9%
Why are black markets bad from a monetary perspective?
What is un-taxed and un-regulated.
If the ban were still in place, what would be the age or the birth year of kids first banned from ever being able to legally buy cigarettes.
What is 15 or those born after January 2009.
Who does the ban negatively affect?
What is the tobacco store owners and the current government
Who are one of the major stakeholders who are native to New Zealand?
The Maori People
What is the reason that the tax dollars from tobacco products are still needed?
What is to cover the cost of tax cuts the new government has implemented in other industries
Why did New Zealand’s new government scrap the country’s world-leading law?
What is to help pay for tax cuts
What community suffers most from the negative impacts of smoking
What is the Maori community
Is it better to focus on the long term economy or short term economy in this situation? (debate)
Winning team
If you were the government would you scrap the ban or keep it?
The last team to speak, gets a point!
Who benefits from removing the ban?
What is the New Zealand government