http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/poli...-lepers-Henare
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National MP Tau Henare is smoking again and has suggested it is OK for pregnant women to do the same.
A parliamentary hearing into the wellbeing of Maori children was told yesterday that controlling tobacco was the single most important thing the Government could do.
Mr Henare, who has publicly struggled to give up smoking, took offence at that.
Smokers were paying for their own healthcare through their $1.5 billion tax bill and were sick of being looked down upon, he said.
"One of the things, as a smoker and smokers hate, is having this feeling of being ostracised in their community, being told off, being treated like some sort of pariah."
It was "seriously depressing" having to go outside in the cold to smoke. "We are the new lepers of the community."
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Discipline required to raise kids, that's easy.
Discipline required to quit smoking? too hard.