Smoking

Smokers at Otago Polytechnic will not be left to struggle on their own when the Dunedin and Cromwell campuses go totally smoke-free next month.

The days of indulging in a quick cigarette in a sheltered doorway outside a lecture theatre or office will soon be a thing of the past for University of Otago students and staff.

The number of New Zealanders lighting up has dropped in the past year, according to new figures.

• The efforts of the water-diviner, whose services were recommended to the Hospital Board by Mr Walter Blackie, in regard to finding a source of water supply adjacent to the Sanatorium for Consumptives at Palmerston, have been attended with decided success.

An Auckland academic says smoking rates in New Zealand would plummet if tobacco products could not be displayed at shops.

An Auckland academic says smoking rates in New Zealand would plummet if tobacco products could not be displayed at shops.

Amid a barrage of Maori people calling for tough controls and the eventual banning of smoking, a tobacco company today asked for current sale display rules to remain the same.