Neither government (US or New Zealand) actually want to stop people from smoking for health reasons.
If they did they would just declare tobacco illegal.
They just want to screw tobacco smokers out of as much tax money as possible while making false claims that it is all done for health reasons.
” If they did they would just declare tobacco illegal. “
Yeah - that worked so well with beverage alcohol in the 1920s, and with recreational drugs 1960s to present...