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Smokefree bars and restaurants poster

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Smokefree bars and restaurants poster

In 2004 all bars, restaurants and indoor workplaces became smokefree. This celebratory poster was issued by Te Ohu Auahi Kore, the Smokefree Coalition, a grouping of many different organisations that had come together to fight for greater restrictions on smoking.  

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The Smokefree Coalition, Te Ohu Auahi Kore

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Jock Phillips, Smoking – Smoking under attack: 1960–2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/38981/smokefree-bars-and-restaurants-poster (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 30 November 2012.