Officials urged Associate Health Minister Casey Costello to retain parts of smokefree laws, briefings reveal

Casey Costello rejected all compromise options suggested to her, documents obtained by RNZ show.

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“One of the government's justifications for overturning the smokefree laws is the claim that it would expand the black market and increase other criminal activity associated with tobacco.”

This government can’t even spell “methamphetamine” correctly. The black market and criminal activity is already here and it’s not “tobacco” they’re after.

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