Tobacco company fronts at select committee

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 4:58p.m.

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A tobacco company manager has admitted nicotine is addictive and said no cigarette is safe.

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15 Mar 2010 09:20a.m.

David wrote:

Smoking tobacco contributes to poor health, to do so is comparable to a game of russian roulette, not the sort of odds anyone should play. Lightseed the problem is many are not aware of the risks when they start and are usually hooked to the habit by the time they do. However a ban has been used before, other problems and I am not convinced this is the magic cure wished for.

12 Mar 2010 09:45a.m.

Jon wrote:

yeah, ummm, Lightseed, so you are suggesting that tobacco is so addictive that everyday law-abiding people would be happy to deal with gangs to get hold of it? If tobacco has that much control over people then it definitely shouldn't be sold in supermarkets and dairies, and must surely cause a lot of today's under 18 smokers to commit crime to get their hands on it. Tell me how do the benefits of tobacco outweigh the damage it causes? Why should tobacco be legal?

11 Mar 2010 10:25p.m.

Dave wrote:

People shouldn't have to be told that cigarettes are addictive or hazardous...except for, perhaps, the ones who are incapable of thinking for themselves. Furthermore, why should the tobacco companies become scapegoats in a campaign which essentially argues that consumers are simply stupid, regardless of whether those who promote it intentionally do so with this very premise in mind?

11 Mar 2010 08:40p.m.

Lightseed wrote:

yeah, ummm, Ruz, you do realise that if tobacco was ever banned it would then be taken over by the gangs, and would be the next drug that gangs hold the country ransom to? People are adults, they know the dangers of smoking, if they decide to smoke then that is their decision.

11 Mar 2010 08:20p.m.

MrMan wrote:

I started smoking at aged 12 and smoked for 15 years i just recently gave up I used to patch's they really work! only thing is the first 2 months is very hard but once you get past those first months its so easy Ive been off smoking for just over 1 year now. And feeling better for it. Its never to late to quit

11 Mar 2010 07:05p.m.

Ruz wrote:

It's pleasing to see the Maori Affairs Select Committee get stuck into the tobacco companies. The sooner tobacco products are banned from sale the better off we will be.