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Author: Hon Tariana Turia Associate Minister of Health / MP for Te Tai Hauauru Press Release: New Zealand Government
Intro: Hon Tariana Turia
Associate Minister of Health / MP for Te Tai Hauauru
Monday 26 October 2009
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 if you have a friend or someone in your whanau who smokes, I encourage you to appeal to them to give it a try. No doubt they have most probably already done that in the past, and fell off the wagon, but nevertheless we must keep telling them that we love them, and it’s because of that love that we will keep hounding them about it.
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The most powerful tool to quit smoking that I have come across so far is that of whanau - stories of elderly women who started smoking in the 1960s, when the deadly affects of smoking were not known, and who have chosen to quit in the new millennium so they can live longer for their mokopuna.
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