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Big tobacco ‘working in the shadows’ blamed for killing off NZ’s pioneering plan to protect future generations
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Big tobacco ‘working in the shadows’ blamed for killing off NZ’s pioneering plan to protect future generations
Analysis - Labour and health academics push for clarity over whether tobacco companies had any involvement with the government's smokefree policies, David Seymour will be at Waitangi to explain his Treaty Principles Bill and James Shaw calls it ...
Ministers are are being asked to make public any dealings with the industry by public health experts, who say there are similarities in their arguments on smokefree legislation.
The model for an end to tobacco had been pushed for decades by New Zealand's Indigenous people.
When New Zealand's new government announced it was scrapping the country's world-leading tobacco laws, it came as a particularly hard blow to Māori people.