October 05, 2015
Kids lay on smoking guilt trip
It’s Stoptober, and people around the motu are making the extra effort to give up tobacco.
One of them is former Radio Waatea host Koha Alpass-Waru.
The 28-year-old mother of four says she has been a smoking since she was 11, and it is time to quit.
"Even my kids are saying ‘when are you going to give up?’ because marketing around how bad cigarettes are for you is really good, it’s everywhere, so all the kids are saying ‘are you going to die, you’re going to die mum if you keep having that,’ mum and dad as well, so the guilt started kicking in and of course the financial strain is quite big now so it was kind of like I’m over this, and this is a good opportunity to give it a go," she says.
Koha Alpass-Waru says a lot of people in her whanau smoke, and she hopes she can inspire others to give up.
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