Hopes for no attacks on smokers
PA Wellington The Tobacco Institute hopes the forthcoming smoke-free week does not turn into an attack on smokers. The institute’s executive director, Mr Michael Thompson, said he believed smokers were already feeling harassed by some of the comments made by anti-smokers. He said the people who were promoting the Great New Zealand Smoke-Free Week as a “fun week” were the same people who had also said they wanted a punitive tax on tobacco, and wanted smoking abolished by the year 2000.
The institute was not planning any advertising to counteract smoke-free week from June 30 to July 6, but Mr Thompson said that if it developed into a week of harassing smokers, they would certainly have something to say.
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