Lucy Elwood: Cancer Society CEO says widespread availability of cigarettes has normalised a harmful product
No sympathy for big corporates opposing a Government bill limiting the number of tobacco retailers.
Foodstuffs and Z Energy are lobbying against the proposal, which could see a 95 per cent reduction of around 8,000 retailers.
But Cancer Society New Zealand says maintaining thousands of tobacco retailers will hinder the country's Smokefree 2025 aim.
Chief Executive Lucy Elwood told Mike Hosking widespread availability has normalised the most harmful consumer product in history.
She says there shouldn't be a product that kills as many as two-thirds of its long-term consumers available in stores…
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