Policy and Advocacy: Tobacco, Opinion piece

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Our smokefree future

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Global disasters dominated the news cycle in March, and a story that might otherwise have grabbed headlines slipped through largely unnoticed. But, says Ben Youdan, it’s a story that may have monumental repercussions for New Zealand and reassert us as a leader on the world smokefree stage.

Lore and Leadership: Changing the smoking culture of Maori

Thursday, May 15, 2008

The sun is setting on tobacco in this country. Shane Kawenata Bradbrook believes that within 10 years, the countdown to a tobacco-free New Zealand will see a dramatic change in smoking behaviour amongst Maori and non-Maori unlike. The biggest change will not come through legislation, but through Maori lore – tikanga – and through a shift in Maori leadership.

Seeing past the smoke

Thursday, November 1, 2007

With an estimated 1,100 million regular smokers in the world today and one related death every 10 seconds, tobacco is among the world’s most used and dangerous drugs. Ann McNeill and Jamie Bridge suggest how harm reduction philosophy could replace the usual global ‘quit or die’ response.