Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 29, 2024 5:06:41 GMT 12
ASSOCIATE HEALTH MINISTER CASEY COSTELLO GOT WARNING OF POSSIBLE TREATY OF WAITANGI BREACH OVER SMOKEFREE LAW REPEAL
Associate Health Minister Casey Costello was warned that scrapping the smokefree law would be viewed as a breach of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Article Two of the Treaty guarantees “active protection of taonga, including wellbeing”, health officials told Costello.
“The right to be smokefree is entrenched in Te Tiriti o Waitangi,” the advice to Costello said. “Removing measures that were modelled to reverse inequity and improve health and wellbeing by changing the broader environment to support people to quit, to stay quit and to never start to smoke is likely to be viewed as a breach of Te Tiriti.”....
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/associate-health-minister-casey-costello-got-warning-of-possible-treaty-of-waitangi-breach-over-smokefree-law-repeal/CWCCFUR5RNFYFDOZ3UHUE6JLW4/
Associate Health Minister Casey Costello was warned that scrapping the smokefree law would be viewed as a breach of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Article Two of the Treaty guarantees “active protection of taonga, including wellbeing”, health officials told Costello.
“The right to be smokefree is entrenched in Te Tiriti o Waitangi,” the advice to Costello said. “Removing measures that were modelled to reverse inequity and improve health and wellbeing by changing the broader environment to support people to quit, to stay quit and to never start to smoke is likely to be viewed as a breach of Te Tiriti.”....
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/associate-health-minister-casey-costello-got-warning-of-possible-treaty-of-waitangi-breach-over-smokefree-law-repeal/CWCCFUR5RNFYFDOZ3UHUE6JLW4/