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New Zealand smoking ban: Māori mourn loss of hard-won smoking reform
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Like other countries, New Zealand had already had anti-smoking measures in place for years: excise increases on cigarettes, a Quitline phone service, and mass media campaigns carrying health warnings.
“The problem we realised was because it was reliant on individuals too much,” says Andrew Waa, an associate professor of public health at the University of Otago who is Māori and who has led several tobacco control studies in the country.
“Colonisation is an underlying driver of ethnic inequalities in smoking behaviour,” Associate Prof Waa and other researchers wrote in the Tobacco Control journal last year.
They noted Indigenous’ people’s experience of generational theft, racism and cyclical poverty were the “basic causes” affecting access to income and housing and overall health.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon argued that reducing the number of retailers would turn the shops left selling tobacco into a “massive magnet for crime”.
His office told the BBC the government “remained committed to reducing smoking rates” but did not answer questions on how it would achieve that now with the Smokefree policies scrapped.
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