Smoking

General Editor of Te Ara, historian Jock Phillips on those defining moments that made New Zealand, New Zealand. The habit of tobacco smoking. Audio

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

Tim Graham visits two prisons to see how the inmates are coping 3 months after smoking was banned. Audio

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

Hollywood: Glamorizing cigarette smoking, big tobacco manipulation of media image is not a recent phenomenon. Audio