michaelmurfy:

 

Wow... https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/02/experts-detail-swathe-of-possible-connections-between-coalition-government-politicians-and-tobacco-industry-david-seymour-responds.html 

 

Casey Costello, the Minister of Health Responsible for Tobacco, previously chaired the Taxpayers' Union board - which has previously received funding from British American Tobacco - and has links with the Atlas Network, which has also received tobacco industry funding. 

 

Finance Minister Nicola Willis was previously the board director for New Zealand Initiative, a think tank which lists British American Tobacco and Imperial Brands Australasia as members.    

 

Chris Bishop, who is ranked third on the National Party list, was formerly the corporate affairs manager for Philip Morris New Zealand.

 

PM’s sister-in-law works for world’s biggest tobacco company | Stuff

 

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s sister-in-law works as a trade and marketing coordinator for British American Tobacco, the largest tobacco company in the world, but he says he never discussed tobacco policy with her.

 

Right. Not even in the "Hi, great Christmas dinner. Hey, I'm looking for some opinions here..."?

From the same article:

 

Professor Janet Hoek, Prof Richard Edwards, and Associate Professor Andrew Waa- co-directors of ASPIRE Aotearoa Research Centre, and based in Department of Public Health, University of Otago said it was “concerning to see that Government coalition politicians have used similar claims to those made in submissions on the retail reduction policy by tobacco companies and groups that receive tobacco industry-funding," they wrote in a public health briefing.

 

"Even more importantly, these examples raise important questions about how tobacco companies’ rhetoric has emerged in explanations offered by coalition politicians when asked to explain repealing the smokefree legislation.“

 

Professor Boyd Swinburn has said he has never seen a health minister involved with what he described as “anti-health” policies.

 

And yet from that article:

 

NZ First MP Shane Jones said he took “soundings” from tobacco lobbyist and friend, Apirana Dawson, for the party’s tobacco policy. Dawson was a guest at the swearing in ceremony for ministers and was pictured posing with Jones.

 

It's really looking like "where there's smoke... there's tobacco"?

And for those wondering, this is miles away from the "government is in league with Globalists, Pfizer, WHO and Bill Gates to create a disease that will bring chaos designed to mask and inject us with a vaccine that will be activated via 5G" stories, in terms of plausability.