27 Aug 2019

Tobacco giant targets poor people to promote vaping products

From Morning Report, 7:10 am on 27 August 2019

Tobacco giant Philip Morris has been trying to gain access to a major Auckland poverty group in a bid to promote its vaping and smokeless tobacco devices to poor people.

The tobacco company has also been lobbying DHBs in a bid to get its smokeless tobacco devices used by community health providers running quit smoking groups. Guyon Espiner reports.

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