Published on January 24, 2025 at 09:20. / Modified on January 24, 2025 at 09:22.
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In 2011, New Zealand set a goal of becoming a smoke-free country. Classic measures to combat smoking are already applied, such as increasing the price of a packet of cigarettes (today it costs the equivalent of around 25 francs) and helping people who smoke to quit. A new government policy, this time directly targeting tobacco products, materialized in 2022 with the adoption of an ambitious law to meet the set objective, immediately repealed by the following government. Janet Hoek, Professor of Public Health at the University of Otago and Co-Director of the Aspire Aotearoa Research Center “For One Aotearoa [nom de la Nouvelle-Zélande en maori, ndlr] smoke-free”, was visiting Lausanne this Tuesday at the University Center for General Medicine and Public Health (Unisanté) to meet his Vaudois colleagues and lead a workshop.
Le Temps: The prevalence of smoking in New Zealand is 6.9%, one of the lowest in the world. For comparison, it is 24% in Switzerland, 22% in France and 13% in the United Kingdom. Why do you want to go even lower?
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