What role can local authorities play in tobacco ‘end-game’ policies in New Zealand?

Authors

  • Ken Palmer
  • Chris Bullen
  • Janine Paynter

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v9i3.4455

Keywords:

Smokefree 2025 goal, low prevalence of smoking, Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, graphic warnings, Tax on tobacco, Health Act, Local Government Act (LGA), Smoke-free Environments Act

Abstract

In March 2011 the New Zealand government agreed to the recommendation that it ‘aim for tobacco consumption and smoking prevalence to be halved by 2015 across all demographics, followed by a longer-term goal of making New Zealand a smoke-free nation by 2025’ (New Zealand Parliament, 2011, p.4). ‘Smoke-free’ is defined in this instance as a very low prevalence of smoking and minimal availability of tobacco, rather than prohibition of smoking. 

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Policy Quarterly volume 9 number 3 2013

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2013-08-01

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Vol. 9 No. 3 (2013): Policy Quarterly

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