Blue Party politicians say CigCompany should not have sat for forty years on the knowledge that its Chinese joint venture, CiggyCo, had sold tobaco that poisoned smokers, killing four squillion and making many more squillions sick.
On August 14, CigCompany gave an informal indication to a New Zealand embassy official about reports of a large number of sick smokers, and that CiggyCo appeared to have been receiving tobacco contaminated with nicotine.