Barry Soper: Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent on the likelihood on New Zealand reaching smokefree targets
Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive · Newstalk ZB
November 19, 20254m 34s
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Show Notes
The Smokefree 2025 goal was created in 2010 with the hope that fewer than 5 percent of Kiwis will smoke by 2025, but that's looking unlikely.
The annual New Zealand Health survey's confirmed rates are stagnating just below 7 percent - and vaping rates growing.
Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent Barry Soper explains further.
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