In particular to P.M. Julia Gillard, her Government, and specifically her Health Minister Louise Roxxon: for winning your court case against the cigarette companies. And tough bikkies to ye international purveyors of death and destruction, all of you international tobacco giants... .
Oz Govt, 1: Tobacco Giants, 0. Thus far, so good.
But to the NZ Government, and in particular P.M. John Key, who apparently "doesn't want to die in a ditch" over the matter - even if many other kiwis thereby (effectively) do - I have just one suggestion:
show some - real - leadership for a change. No, I mean, really!
P.S. And let's not conveniently forget all those - such as 19th Century health pioneer Ellen G White - who for anything up to one hundred-and-fifty years ago have been campaigning against the evils of tobacco (not to mention running very effective smoking cessation programmes)...and often against a backdrop of medical 'experts' and doctors still recommending it as a boon to good health!
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