Tim Dower: Tax Cuts Or A Tobacco Free New Zealand?

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Nov 26, 2023 · 2m

Nicola Willis is blaming ACT and NZ First for the momentous dismantling of Smokefree laws.

That's what she said over the weekend, telling Newshub the minor parties were insistent on reversing the amendments, not even a year after they were passed.

ACT says tobacco taxes bring in about 1.8 billion all up, and we're given to believe taking those new restrictions away will be worth about a billion.

So, handy money...especially when you've just had to sacrifice a different cash raising scheme which you'd hoped would help fund tax cuts.

But what do we read from this? Isn't this a matter of…