Nga Wahine Maori Me Te Kai Paipa - Maori Women and Smoking.

Publisher: The Department of Preventative and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, 1993.

Softcover, very good condition, minor creasing and shelf-wear; no inscriptions.

Maori first saw tobacco smoked when the first Europeans arrived in the late 1700s. Tobacco was quickly taken up by Maori, usually smoked in clay pipes or chewed. Terms for smoking include kai paipa and momi paipa (literally eating pipe and sucking pipe ), which refer to these uses. Other terms are kai hikareti and momi hikareti ( eating cigarette and sucking cigarette ). Tobacco is known as tupeka a transliteration of the English word.

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