Smoking
ASH responds to plain packing delay
Here at home, Parliament's health committee in August gave the green light to legislation to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes. The proposed legislation won't be passed until the legal… Audio
Smoking Cessation Targets
Canterbury GPs who fell short of anti-smoking targets were too busy to offer advice about giving up. Is it fair to expect GPs to have to give advice on stopping smoking on top of everything else? Audio
The crackdown on nicotine products for e-cigarettes.
People using electronic devices - or e-cigarettes - to get them off smoking are being forced to get around the rules by importing their own products from overseas and a public health expert Chris… Audio
Zoey Martin-Hawke
Creating a Smoke free Aotearoa by 2025 is the mission of Te Ara Hā Ora Manager Zoey Martin-Hawke, helped along by the contribution of the former co-leader of the Māori Party, Dame Tariana Turia. As… Audio
It's hoped higher prices can help smokers kick the habit
It's not a happy New Year for smokers who now face a bill of more than 20 dollars for a packet of cigarettes. Audio
High-fibre diet good for smokers
Researchers have found that smokers who eat a diet high in fibre will have improved lung health. Audio
Health professionals call for radical changes
Newly-released statistics show Māori smoking rates have dropped by nearly 10 percent. Audio
Australian expert discusses impact of cigarette plain packaging
The plain packaging of cigarettes is seen as another step in the fight against smoking. NZ is yet to see plain packaging, waiting to see how the Australian experience plays out. Audio
Pundit - Life and Times of the Long White Cloud
General Editor of Te Ara, historian Jock Phillips on those defining moments that made New Zealand, New Zealand. The habit of tobacco smoking. Audio
Smokefree public spaces in Auckland
Auckland's council is drafting its plan for the supercity and various health boards are urging that the blueprint include some smokefree initiatives like smokefree public spaces. We hear arguments for… Audio
Insight for 2 October 2011 - Prison Smoking Ban
Tim Graham visits two prisons to see how the inmates are coping 3 months after smoking was banned. Audio
Ideas for 21 March 2010: Smoke Free Aotearoa
Ideas examines the future of smoking. We hear about Bhutan and their longstanding defiance of the tobacco norm; Niue's attempts to become smokefree; the increasingly influential Maori anti-smoking… Audio
Professor Stanton Glantz
Hollywood: Glamorizing cigarette smoking, big tobacco manipulation of media image is not a recent phenomenon. Audio