21 Jun 2018

Cigrarettes and robberies

From The Panel, 4:20 pm on 21 June 2018

Is the tax we're extracting from cigarettes blood money now? In light of the recent stabbing of two dairy workers, the panelists discuss listener solutions to the problem.

Some ask why we don't remove cigarettes from the shops or use the tax earned from the sale of smokes to subsidise dairy owners to do this?

Police cordon off the scene at Grey Lynn supprette, Hylite Dairy after a mother and son were stabbed.

Police cordon off the scene at Grey Lynn supprette, Hylite Dairy after a mother and son were stabbed. Photo: RNZ/Anneke Smith