Up in smoke: The end of NZ’s world-first smokefree laws

To smokefree or not smokefree? That is the question our guests grapple with on the pod this week, as the world reacts to the shock decision by our new Government to repeal legislation that would have phased out cigarette sales in New Zealand. We talk to a public health professor who offers an evidence-based debunking of the justifications offered by the new National-led Government - and the consultant involved in a report that rejected Labour's case for introducing the laws in the first place. Plus, Labour health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall lets rip, the new health minister's apparently shifting stance and the campaigning teen who wants our leaders to protect his community from nicotine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices