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• Maori committee to investigate smoking 

'This is a war against people who kill New Zealanders'
Jump to full article: Independent Newspapers Ltd. / STUFF (nz), 2009-09-23
Author: NZPA

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Maori Party MP Hone Harawira wants tobacco company executives to front up at an inquiry into the industry, despite his threats to lynch them.

Mr Harawira announced today the Maori Affairs parliamentary select committee would hold an inquiry into the impact of tobacco use on Maori.

The committee would talk to ''everybody, before we get to the tobacco companies'', Mr Harawira said.

There was a ''very clear public record'' of the serious negative effects of tobacco and the companies selling it must front up to the public, he said.

The inquiry would require the New Zealand-based chairpeople and chief executives, not spin doctors, to be involved.

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