24 Jul 2018

Tobacco tax increases: 'Take a breath, have a review' - ASH

From Morning Report, 8:21 am on 24 July 2018

Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters told Morning Report the goal to be smokefree by 2025 is meaningless and dairy owners have suffered violent attacks due to continued price hikes. Action on Smoking and Health programme manager Boyd Broughton joins us to discuss. "There needs to be a review... to see how it can be done better," he tells Guyon Espiner. He says there also needs to be affordable alternatives like vaping.