Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives

  • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The leading Māori public health organisation, Hāpai te Hauora, said the reversal will be “catastrophic for Māori communities”.

    It’s not a good idea to tell conservatives how policies would potentially harm the vulnerable, the poor, the excluded.

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      • One in six New Zealanders are Maori.

      • New Zealand electoral system is MMP

      • The Maori seats are sometimes pivotal. There is also a political party called The Maori Party which has sometimes been in government.

      For these reasons it’s important to tell the voters at large when a policy affects this particular constituency.

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        @IHadTwoCows

        Why don’t they tell the Maori to not smoke?

        There have been more than 10 years of targetted ads telling Maori not to smoke, appealing to specifically Maori concepts like whanau and manaaakitanga.

        What the people in this thread don’t realise is that this law was part of Smokefree Aotearoa, an initiative invented by The Maori Party (a party whose main voters are Maori) to gradually phase out smoking.

        It wasn’t an abrupt change.