Tobacco Inquiry Debate
Mr Speaker – I’d like to dedicate this short speech to some very special people. To Huhana Mihinui, who filed the Waitangi Tribunal claim to eliminate smoking among Maori; To Maori Marsden, Ngaitakoto elder, rangatira, tohunga, mentor, and orator – whose death from smoking made me so angry that I gave up the day he [...]
The Health Sponsorship Council Tobacco Free Aotearoa Conference 2010 | Tariana Turia
Waipuna Hotel, Panmure, Auckland Delivered on behalf of Minister Turia by Dr Ashley Bloomfield, Deputy-Director General; Ministry of Health It has been heart-warming to read the rapturous reports from across the country in response to the report of the Maori Affairs Select Committee inquiry into the tobacco industry. The Royal New Zealand College of General [...]
Tobacco controls tightened up | Tariana Turia
Removing retail tobacco displays and tightening up tobacco controls have been announced by Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia today. “Tobacco casts a long shadow of death and disease that has touched almost every household in New Zealand,” says Mrs Turia. “This Government is serious about reducing the threat to the lives of New Zealanders and [...]
Harawira to talk about tobacco
Maori Party MP Hone Harawira will be speaking at the following event at 3pm today: The University of Auckland Tobacco Control Research Symposium Tamaki Innovation Campus – School of Population Health Building 730, Seminar Room 289 Media contact: Renee Kiriona-Ritete – 04 817 9851 – 021 917 796 The Maori Affairs Select Committee’s final report [...]
Aukati Kai Paipa Hui-a-Tau
Te Manukanuka o Hoturoa Marae, Manukau I have been thinking a lot about the science of change. In doing so I have been pondering the concept of critical mass, the threshold having been reached where suddenly the unexpected becomes expected, the improbable becomes a possibility. For those of us who are cooks, we will be [...]
Turia pleased with tobacco sale prosecution (Turia)
Tariana Turia says the conviction of a Manurewa dairy owner should send a clear message that breaches of the smoke-free legislation will not be tolerated. The store owner was convicted and fined $1000 in the Manukau District Court yesterday for selling cigarettes to a person under 18-years-old. “These retailers are clearly putting their own personal [...]
Turia commends stop smoking superwoman (Turia)
Tariana Turia today congratulated Tainui woman and pharmacy assistant Te Ana Simmonds for the work she has been doing to help free people from the smoking addiction. “Te Ana is truly amazing. Here we have a person who has taken her own initiative to help the community she loves for no other reason but that [...]
Government gives smokers extra help to quit (Turia)
Nicotine patches, gum and lozenges will be made cheaper for smokers wanting to quit the deadly habit which kills about 5000 New Zealanders every year, Tariana Turia announced today. Furthermore, as of September 1, the three forms of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) can also be prescribed by general practitioners (GPs). “Smokers usually use two forms [...]
Turia welcomes decision to prosecute tobacco company (Turia)
Tariana Turia has described the daughter of a long-time smoker as “courageous” for winning a case against a tobacco giant. This week, a federal jury in the United States decided cigarette maker Philip Morris USA should pay US$13.8 million in punitive damages to Jodie Bullock whose mother Betty Bullock died of lung cancer in 2003. [...]
‘Kick butt: No Smoking Whanganui’ (Turia)
This week is the inaugural No Smoking Whanganui Week and I am putting my full support behind it for one simple reason – I want our families and children to live fuller and better lives. The initiative is not an attack on smokers but to inspire and support them to give quitting a go. So [...]
