Skip to content

The Ministry of Health Seems to Want People to Keep Smoking

The Ministry of Health continues with their agenda while a hapless minister looks like she isn’t in control of her ministry.

When you don’t slap down public servants, they get ideas above their station in life, which is to serve their minister. That is if you aren’t in the Ministry of Health; then you serve your own interests or the interests of axe grinders and the opposition, to whom they leak with gay abandon.

So, yesterday the Ministry of Health sent out an email promoting ‘their’ law changes around vaping. They of course are completely at odds with their minister, who seems to just act as a rubber stamp to the ministry proposals.

These changes are set to become law in six months’ time:

This post is for paying subscribers only

Subscribe

Already have an account? Sign In

Latest

When Only One Side Is Blamed

When Only One Side Is Blamed

If this absence reflects the totality of MFAT’s internal work, then New Zealand foreign policy is operating with a blind spot large enough to distort the very concept of peace. For the sake of an informed national debate, that must change.

Members Public