Family tells of smoking death pain

Posted by karere under Maori News

The parliamentary committee probing the tobacco industry got personal in Auckland yesterday with the family of a Maori smoking victim describing the impact of his addiction and death. The Te Kiri whanau of Hamilton wept as they told MPs of the pain tobacco smoking inflicted on their father before killing him in mid-life. They are among many families and organisations to tell the tobacco inquiry of how the smoking rate of more than 40 per cent among Maori and the associated premature deaths have deprived them of their elders.

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