This letter is a direct request to Mr Luxon, addressed to him, and cc'd to the usual, Seymour, Peters, Sarfati, Reti, Health dept heads, media.

If each of you sent a similar letter, cc'ing your MP, that would be great. The email address for the PM is Christopher.Luxon@parliament.govt.nz

This is a request to focus on what is happening right now and to state what his government are going to do, given that currently, as the following much-repeated material establishes, the government is acting criminally. Other communication with all these recipients has provided other data and recommendations.

"Please, look at this if you haven't yet.
If it is not promoting Juul et al and criminally understating vaping health risks I will eat my hat.

https://youtu.be/UjhITheN9I0

(There appears currently to be no Head of the Dept of Public Health, a body which advises the Ministry of Health, so I have included in the cc'd recipients Dr Michael Baker, one of the directors of research in the department.)

As provided before to MPs, health leaders and media outlets, the following are instructive:
1. Information for NZ public on vaping risks 
2. That for US public
3. What is in the vape aerosol

4 The American Cancer Society states vapes should not be used to quit tobacco smoking

5. Lung.org describes profound concerns about vaping

This gives a little insight into both the grip the tobacco/vape corporations have on the government and the government's willingness to lie to the public about vaping while massively both endorsing and profiting from vape sales.

This, the lack of vape or nicotine quitting programmes, NZ primary and secondary school children addicted to vaping, school principals deeply concerned, every retailer legally able to obtain a licence to display and sell vapes as the Labour amendment supports, etc, are NOT justified by a desire to assist tobacco smokers to vape, the Labour government's stated justification for licencing vaping.

The Labour government and the new National-led government if it does not act promptly are guilty of abusing and increasing morbidity, mortality and psychological torment in a generation of New Zealanders.

What are you going to do about it Mr Luxon?

Regards

Mary MacGibbon (PhD)

1 https://vapingfacts.health.nz/the-facts-of-vaping/risks-of-vaping/

2. https://e-cigarettes.surgeongeneral.gov/knowtherisks.html#aerosol-exposure

3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_of_electronic_cigarette_aerosol#:~:text=The%20e%2Dcigarette%20aerosol%20usually,e%2Dcigarette%20aerosols%20vary%20greatly

4. https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/tobacco/e-cigarettes-vaping/e-cigarette-position-statement.html

5. https://www.lung.org/quit-smoking/e-cigarettes-vaping "