I think at this stage it’s just easier to ask ‘hands up who isn’t working for the tobacco industry in this Government?

Leaked tobacco lobbying plan for ‘political pressure’ shows tobacco giant got its tax cut wish

A leaked document from tobacco giant Philip Morris says the company should target political parties including NZ First to get more favourable regulation for its Heated Tobacco Products (HTPs).

RNZ has obtained the 2017 document ‘Designing a Smoke-free Future in New Zealand’, a corporate affairs plan to lobby for HTPs and other smokeless nicotine products to be embraced as part Smokefree 2025.

The Philip Morris New Zealand (PMNZ) lobbying plan, dated August 2017, was drawn up as the National-led government of the day was legalising vaping products. The document maps out a path for HTPs to gain similar recognition.

“It is essential that we move proactively to control the narrative about PMNZ, our products and in particular, our potential contribution to harm reduction,” the document says.

How much do you have to hate Jacinda to justify the latest Big Tobacco scandal?

Why are we beating up on beneficiaries more than we are beating up on Banks, Supermarkets, Big Oil, Big Tobacco and Big Polluters???

The jackboot of the State should always be on the throats of the most powerful so that their interests don’t warp our Democracy, the jackboot of the State SHOULD NOT be used on citizens! How do you as a libertarian justify the jacboot of the state on the throats of the poor?

What on earth have we become for this type of weird promotion of Big Tobacco to be considered normal?

NZ was warned by the OECD that corporate interests were infecting our politics, this is a mutation of due process and the common good.

If Beneficiaries were cigarettes, this Government would have found a way to save them!

How angry at Jacinda must you be to accept this?