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Jump to full article: nzoom.com (TVNZ), 2009-09-27
Intro: PAUL Well talk about the reformed smoker, welcome back, Mr Hone Harawira the Maori MP, he used to smoke, now he wants to lynch the tobacco company executives. The facts are simple, more than 7,000 New Zealanders smoke, nearly half of Maori smoke.
HONE HARAWIRA Seven hundred thousand actually Paul.
PAUL More than 700,000 New Zealanders smoke, nearly half of Maori smoke and one in three Maori die from smoking cigarettes. . . .
PAUL But prohibition on drugs doesn't seem to work, we know from the United States in the 1920s with alcohol, dope is banned in New Zealand as well, but plenty of dope around, P is banned, plenty of P around.
HONE Again, those things still flourish in the blackmarket because most people still want them, most cigarette smokers don't want to smoke, it's an addiction that they don't actually enjoy. You can't create a blackmarket in a situation where people don't really want the product.
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