‘The minister responsible for tobacco control, Tariana Turia, wants smoking banned in cars and will push for other tough policies to encourage the virtual end of smoking in New Zealand.
In her first interview since she announced last week that the Government would introduce legislation to ban retail displays of tobacco, the Associate Health Minister and Maori Party co-leader yesterday outlined to the Herald the measures she wants brought in to save lives by reducing smoking.
Her public-health agenda may be several steps ahead of the National Party Cabinet, but she has already got her way on big tobacco tax increases and retail displays and has won support to explore Australia’s plans for plain packaging of tobacco products.
“I would have very much liked to ban smoking in cars,” she said. “Some people feel it’s going a little too far, telling people what to do in their own private vehicles.
“The concern that I have got is quite often you see vehicles travelling along and they have got children in them and people smoking. If people aren’t going to use common sense and don’t understand … that smoking in vehicles means children are passively smoking, or other people in the car are passively smoking, if they don’t understand the impact on the health and wellbeing of their family, I have no difficulty in introducing legislation to prevent that from happening.”‘
Wabbit has difficulty explaining how he feels about this little nazi tub of lard without using a string of expletives. This is what Key has willingly and unnecessarily subjected Kiwis to–rule by a bunch of lying, corrupt, thieving, primitive, violent, racist assholes. Trading away the rights of Kiwis for power and what’s more, doing that by keeping his intentions secret during the elections.
The maori “gimme” mentality combined with political power will see productive New Zealanders bled dry in order to enrich and empower a bunch of stone-age savages who never invented anything worthwhile and who can’t even take responsibility for their own health and welfare. Giving these bastards power is about the equivalent of handing a chimp a case of dynamite and a Zippo.
