‘Let’s make cigarettes too’

“Saturday’s paper reported that Vanuatu refused to let Rock International Tobacco from setting up a cigarette factory in that country,” notes a smoke signaller. “Clearly this tobacco company went to the wrong island. Surely our Ministry of Health would be ready to support such an income generating business. Won’t someone get an email off to Rock International and explain how the Cook Islands sold our oceans to the Chinese and that they better get in quick and set up that cigarette factory while our resources and health are still on sale to anyone with ready cash and baskets of gifts.”

“Saturday’s paper reported that Vanuatu refused to let Rock International Tobacco from setting up a cigarette factory in that country,” notes a smoke signaller. “Clearly this tobacco company went to the wrong island. Surely our Ministry of Health would be ready to support such an income generating business. Won’t someone get an email off to Rock International and explain how the Cook Islands sold our oceans to the Chinese and that they better get in quick and set up that cigarette factory while our resources and health are still on sale to anyone with ready cash and baskets of gifts.”