New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has promised one punter on the campaign trail today that he'll stop the Government from "ripping" off smokers.
During a walk this afternoon in Albany Mall, on Auckland's North Shore, Peters told a punter, "I'm going to make sure that they stop ripping you off and lying to you about a 2025 smokefree environment whilst taking $2 billion off you."
"I've got better recipes for you to go to a non-smoking environment than that."
Earlier this month, NZ First pledged to lower tobacco excise to no more than $20 a pack on average, as well as to remove tax from smoking cessation tools.
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