Repealing this measure risks seeing around 5000 New Zealanders continue to die every year from smoking and a persistence of associated health inequities
Grassroots activist groups like GASP, ASH, and DOC, which laid the foundation for tobacco control in the 1960s to 1990s in spite of their bare-bones budgets, have all but disappeared, replaced by well-paid tobacco control bureaucrats, who equate policy papers with progress and studies with success
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