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Kōrero: Interest groups

Banning tobacco sponsorship

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After years of lobbying by groups such as ASH, in 1994 the government banned tobacco sponsorship of sporting and other events. This clip shows how the government cushioned the change by providing short-time sponsorship money to long-running events such as the Benson and Hedges Tennis Open.

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Raymond Miller, Interest groups – Consumer interest groups, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/34986/banning-tobacco-sponsorship (accessed 30 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Raymond Miller, i tāngia i te 14 March 2012, updated 1 April 2020.