Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Green): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. Huri noa i Te Whare tēnā tātou katoa. I am very proud to stand and support the Smoke-free Environments (Tobacco Plain Packaging) Amendment Bill. Like I think everybody I definitely want a smoke-free Aotearoa by 2021 and I definitely support using all of the good effective tools that we can to help us get there. For my mother who is watching essentially this bill introduces a plain packaging regime for her ciggies that she likes to get and will punch that marketing right in the guts to stop the appeal particularly to young people which is what the evidence shows—I am just referring to my New Zealand First friends—does have an effect. Otherwise why would the tobacco companies stand with so much kaha to oppose it? Why would they do that if it did not work? There is the evidence—and I find myself checking myself but I agreed with the Associate Minister of Health when he told the story of the evidence and why it did have a significant and important reduction in smoking rates. I want that too.I fondly remember that I received an award in 2006 from Te Hotu Manawa Māori—which used to be a Māori health provider under the ministry actually—for being a Tāmaki-makau-rau Auahi Kore role model. I liken it to a beauty contest but for non-smoking. I toured the country as a non-smoking Māori woman reclaiming our traditional auahi kore status through the power of being Māori women. Something we have known for a long time is that Māori women have featured far too highly in the incidence of smoking. I recall fondly my involvement in that work and being awarded that award back then. I also recall fondly featuring on a postcard for the Ministry of Health as a pregnant Māori woman to encourage smoke-free pregnancy. So it is my honour to stand here and recall my support in supporting those incredible workers and agencies who were out there long before I was trying to get us to auahi kore status.I want to right now do a big mihi to the Hon Whaea Tariana Turia and her relentless courageous and urgent work to try to get us to this point. I acknowledge that she also said very recently—I think last month—that it should have been done earlier. She also dissed it a bit. She said that Oh well we'll wait to see how Aussie goes." is not actually a way to plan our own laws. I also want to acknowledge my colleague Kevin Hague who acknowledged my other colleague Marama Fox. I agree with Marama Fox. Those tobacco bullies do not need to be given a platform here in our country so I want to acknowledge those people as well. I also want to acknowledge Hone Harawira who supported and worked with Whaea Tariana to push this through.I want to talk about the fact that Māori are the group with the most prevalence of smoking more than any other ethnic group. At 32.7 percent the rate is more than double the rate of non-Māori smoking—more than double. I heard before some discussion about one of the arguments—tobacco lobbyists want to protect their intellectual property. We have to be more concerned about protecting the intellectual property the wairua property and the contribution that people are going to make without having to die from smoking and without having to get sick from smoking. That is the intellectual property that we should be worried about in Aotearoa New Zealand. So I wanted to just bat that one away.My brother Boyd Broughton and my sister-in-law Jeanine Tāmati-Paratene work for Action on Smoking and Health and work for smoke-free health organisations. I want to also acknowledge the work of people like them and many others who for a long time have been telling us to utilise all the tools that we can—the effective tools—to get a smoke-free Aotearoa by 2021. That is what I want too. Kia ora."