The Cancer first coalition will regulate the Vaping industry so that the Tobacco Oligarchs get control over selling Vapes.
Specialists Vaping stores will be legislated to favor sales of Vape products made by the likes of Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco, Imperial Brands, Japan Tobacco International, and China National Tobacco Company.
I had dinner with Winston years ago, a small unhealthy man smoking during dinner, I did wonder how many cancers he had bred over his too long a life span with his passive air pollution of all those smoke in your face encounters.
A friend knew Seymour, they asked him about the decriminalization of cannabis "We want to let kids from Remuera smoke it without being arrested, while kids from Manurewa get arrested for selling it"
I said to my mate I wish you had of filmed him firing off all his appalling off the record quips.
And when you throw in guns to this discussion (the NRA) - democracy in New Zealand is really at stake here. No one bar a small fringe of right wingers want more tobacco and more guns on our streets. Yet here we have a new epoch where our political system is now proved corrupted by the controls unscrupulous dangerous immoral shadowy industrial criminals.
Did Seymour really say that about Manurewa vs Remuera
I find that bloody offensive having grown up in Rewa and actually going back there in 1990 for a few months when I came back from Aus
The vaping tobacco thing is tricky
In Aus the price (taxes increasing year on year) has made vapes and tobacco attractive to crime groups
They openly operate shops selling illegal tobacco ( smuggled in no import duty) and vapes
The gangs have set fire to 40 shops failing to sell their illegal products
Sales through legal shops of Bata Phillip Morris and Imperial have fallen fifty per cent- bear in mind this is is a significant reduction in import duty and gst
The laws are disconnected state to federal and the gangs are tricky. They get raided but oddly there is never much stock in the shop( it’s topped up by a van down the road) so the fines are small and their profits large
I was waiting for a bus outside one of these shops in Bris couple of weeks back and the top up van turned up blocking the bus stop taking his time with two middle eastern types unloading dodgy stuff including nitros oxide.
Maybe just allowing Bata Pm and Imperial to control the trade through legal shops paying import duty and gst is the way to go
But be careful scary shirt here tobacco shop gets burnt down and the six surrounding shops also have to shut down while they are all rebuilt
Mind you I can see insurers saying no we are not going to insure tobacco shops in shopping centres here
