A tobacco giant has been told there should be a statue to commemorate dead Maori smokers killed by “the enemy that lies within our midst”. Maori Party MP Hone Harawira told British American Tobacco’s managing director Graeme Amey at a select committee hearing on the tobacco industry yesterday that as many Maori died each year because of tobacco as died in World War II. He said a submission to the committee on Wednesday spoke o ... Jump to full article >>