9 November 2010
Last week the Māori Affairs Committee report on the inquiry into the tobacco industry in Aotearoa was released, including a whole stash of recommendations to halve smoking by 2015 and make New Zealand smoke-free by 2025. I’ve rewritten the recommendations to make them easy to read and understand (NRT stands for nicotine replacement therapy). If [...]
16 March 2010
Last week the Maori Affairs Select Committee began its hearings into the tobacco industry in Aotearoa and the consequences of tobacco use for Maori. We got nearly 2000 submissions and we hope to report back to parliament in 3 or 4 months time. Our first hearing was held in Rotorua to honour the memory of [...]
