MEDIA RELEASE – 1st August
2012
Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Inc. says YES
to the Smokefree Environments Act
Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Inc. welcomes the Smokefree Environments Act; prohibiting the display or advertising of tobacco products as a ‘giant step foreward’ in contributing towards ‘Kahungunu Living Longer – Wellbeing Strategy’ and supporting the ‘Ngāti Kahungunu Tobacco Free Strategy’.
Ngāti
Kahungunu recognises that tobacco:
Cuts
down our whānau too early in
life.
Destroys our whānau
wellbeing
Is invasive of our Kahungunu
culture and tikanga.
And we want tobacco
to be drop kicked out of our lives forever.
We again welcome and recognise that this is a great
‘giant step foreward’ to supporting the Ngāti
Kahungunu Tobacco Free Strategy and reaching a Smokefree
Aotearoa 2025.
Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Inc. encourages New
Zealand to support the proposal to introduce plain packaging
of tobacco products in New Zealand recognising that as a
great next step in contributing towards the ‘Ngāti
Kahungunu Tobacco Free Strategy’ & Smokefree Aotearoa
2025.
FACTS:
•
The Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Inc. Chairman Ngahiwi Tomoana is
smokefree
• The Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Inc.
Board members are smokefree
• 95% of the
Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Inc. Staff are smokefree
www.kahungunu.iwi.nz
ENDS