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Kāore o tātou tūpuna i momi tupeka, kāore hoki taua mea i te wā o uki, o whakapata. Smoking did not have a place in pre-European society. The Māori world was Smokefree. Did you know... 1 in every 2 adult Māori smoke Did you know ... that the proportion of Māori in the Health Workforce is estimated at 5 percent.
Did you know ... that out of the total number of students studying in formal tertiary education, 4 percent were studying in a health field Did you know that NZ smoking population is 23.5% (Tobacco Trends 2006) Did you know that 47% of Māori continue to smoke compared to 21% of non-Māori Did you know ... that half of Māori adults over 15 years of age smoke Did you know .... that 60% of Māori women of child bearing age smoke Did you know ... that 40%-80% of pregnant Māori women smoke Did you know .. that there will be between 10,000 to 12,000 Māori babies born this year, 2007-8 Did you know ... that maternal smoking is another major non-controversial risk factor for SIDS Did you know .... that a survey conducted during 2002 found that 69 percent of Māori participants had visited a marae in the previous 12 months. Did you know ... that most Māori who had visited a marae in the previous 12 months had done so more then once Did you know ... that under the Smokefree legislation if you have a kohanga, kura or private training establishment on your marae then smoking in those buildings and their surrounding grounds is banned at all times, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Did you know .. that there are more then 800 marae throughout Aotearoa. Did you know ... that 50% of Maori women smoke compared with 40% of Maori men Did you know ... that 60% of girls between the ages of 15-19 years smoke compared with 32% of boys |
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Cigarettes Kill - even the light and mild ones (Wednesday, 24 September 2008)
Cigarettes kill – even the light and mild ones
Hone Harawira, MP for Te Tai Tokerau
24 September 2008
“Cigarette companies calling their products ‘light’ and ‘mild’, is like weapon factories calling their bullets ‘nice’ and ‘pleasant’,” said Hone Harawira, Maori Party MP for Tai Tokerau, and spokesman for the Tobacco Out of Aotearoa campaign.
“In both cases, they are a lie. In both cases they kill. The ONLY difference is that bullets kill you quickly.”
Harawira was responding to a statement that the Commerce Commission had warned three major tobacco companies supplying the New Zealand market that describing their cigarettes as ‘light’ and ‘mild’ was misleading.
Commerce Commission Director of Fair Trading Adrian Sparrow, said that, “the bottom line is smoking causes many diseases, including cancer. There is no such thing as a safe, or safer, cigarette.”
“I’m glad the Commission has come out with their ruling,” said Harawira.
“Sometimes I get so angry with these tobacco murderers, and government for allowing them to continue to operate, that I wish I could just come to parliament and pour buckets of dirty, filthy, stinking, poisonous cigarette tar all over the Chamber to bring home to them all, the level of death and destruction that these traffickers get away with.”
“If another country killed 4,500 New Zealanders every year, we’d be going to war,” said Harawira.
”I challenge government to declare war on the tobacco industry for killing our people, instead of holding their noses while they take the billion dollar taxes that cigarette deaths bring into government coffins/coffers.”
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For info contact:
Andrew Robb
Media Adviser
029 482 8494
New Zealand Smokefree rate at record low (Monday, 09 June 2008)
Auahi Kore Update Hui - What a Success! (Tuesday, 16 October 2007)
HAERE RA RANGATIRA MĀ (Wednesday, 02 May 2007)
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