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New Zealand is definitely keeping pace with, if not leading, some of those efforts in our corner of the world

After that, and for the first time since the NZHS started, daily smoking rates remained the same (within 0.1%) for three consecutive years

New Zealands new government will scrap the countrys world-leading law to ban smoking for future generations to help pay for tax cuts a move that public health officials believe will cost thousands of lives and be catastrophic for Mori communities

In just six years the country's excise tax take has gone down from $16.3 billion to $4.1b and that downward trajectory is set to continue, even though the smoking rates have not decreased

Differences persisted when data were adjusted by age and gender (adjusted ratios 2.89 (95% CI 2.43-3.44) for Mori vs non-Mori and 1.62 (95% CI 1.17-2.25) for Pacific vs non-Pacific)

This is due to strong government policies aimed at reducing smoking rates