Smoking ephemera
Smoking now gets more expensive with a 10% increased in the tax on tobacco There'll be 10% rises on January the first, each year until 2020. It's estimated 15% of adult New Zealanders smoke daily, and smoking-related illnesses kill up to 5000 a year.
The Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington holds hundreds of smoking-related posters, brochures, other advertising and health messages that've been published over more than a century in New Zealand.
Barbara Lyon is Curator Ephemera at the library and showed Lynn Freeman some of her favourite examples.
The images in this gallery are used with permission and are subject to copyright conditions.
