Christchurch smokers share stories of the harm caused by their addiction in Community Voices, a new short film to be launched later this year. Community Voices is a Smokefree Canterbury initiative, featuring Stop Smoking practitioner Teresa Butler and her clients. A reformed smoker herself, Butler said she came up with the film idea as consultation was under way on the Government's Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan. In the meantime, she was happy to feature it on Star News and hoped it would raise awareness of the action plan’s smokefree goal. "I think it’s a really emotive film to watch, people have been very honest about how tobacco has affected themselves, their whanau, their wider community, and the struggles that they face on a daily basis,” Dodd said.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 14, 2021 00:45 UTC