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Smoky environment

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Smoky environment

These men are enjoying a drink and a smoke at the Porirua Tavern in 1967. Until 2004, people could smoke cigarettes in bars. This was made illegal to protect bar employees and non-smokers from the effects of passive smoking.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

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Kerryn Pollock, Health and society – Lifestyle and environment, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/30743/smoky-environment (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 18 April 2011.