The Farcical Casey Costello Saga

Do you want to hear a joke?

One day a government Minister fought very hard to help out mates with tax cuts

She scored them - a massive NZ $106 billion multinational tobacco company with shares trading at $192 each - $216 million worth of tax cuts on their star product (chicly named “IQOS”)

Not chump change at all and in all honesty the Minister was pretty chuffed with herself.

Except she forgot one small detail.

The last government had put in a law to tighten regulations on that product.

And the Minister forgot all the little details leading up to that - which effectively meant her tax cuts are now supporting an illegal product - IQOS.

Anyone else laughing?

Thought not.

And now my pet gripe about Casey Costello and her Heated-Tobacco-Product scandal -

HTP are banned in Australia and the EU as “poison”. The EU has said their marketing is deceptive.

The harm and addiction to these substances has been proven in multiple scientific studies, particularly in Japan where th…