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Smoking cigars as dangerous as cigarettes
Cigars could be just as dangerous as cigarettes, NZ
Associate Health Minister Tuariki Delamere said. He announced
actions against certain ways of cigar promotions that could
breach the New Zealand Smokefree Environment Act.
"People don't seem to realise that the ban on advertising tobacco
relates to cigars just as much as cigarettes," Mr Delamere said.
Smoking cigars could cause oral, laryngeal and lung cancers,
he said.
ecoglobe finds the promotion of tobacco socially
irresponsible and morally despicable. If we walk along Wellington's
upbeat shopping malls and see all those kids smoking, it breaks our
heart. Smoking is still cool, it appears. Little do our kids realise
that they are the innocent victims of false and subliminal propaganda.
Can we blame our children who unwittingly copy their elders? Why do
people with great "mana" publicly light up a cigar in front of
many camera lenses? Why do newspaper editors choose that particular
photo king-size to illustrate their article? Does smoking really
means success and wealth? Medical practitioners know better:
smoking kills. Full stop.
Views expressed are not necessarily those of ecoglobe.
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(3 April 1999)