Latest / The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
Govt ignored economic analysis of smokefree reversal
TL;DR: The six news items that stood out to me at 7:26 am today are:
* The Lead: Casey Costello never passed on to Cabinet official advice with an analysis for the BMJ showing that keeping Labour’s smokefree changes would have boosted consumer disposable incomes by $51 billion by 2050, more than offsetting $19 billion in net losses for the Government. Newsroom Marc Daalder (See more analysis and detail below)
* Geopolitics: Iran attacked Israel for the first time, firing hundreds of missiles and drones, but almost all were shot down by Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ defence system, along with help from…
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