Anti-smoking week on again
PA Wellington Another Great New Zealand Smoke-FreeWeek will be held in October, said the national organiser, Mr Mike Kelly, yesterday. Mr Kelly said the decision to hold another smoke-free week this year, aimed particularly
at teenagers, was in part prompted by figures revealed in a survey. “These figures indicate a significant downward trend in the incidence of smoking,” said Mr Kelly. “We know that in 1985 approximately 32 per cent of the population aged 15 and over were smokers.
In the last quarter of 1986 the incidence of smoking in this group was down to 29.6 per cent.” At about 57,000 people, this was equivalent to the total population of a city the size of Invercargill or Tauranga giving up smoking, he said. “It would be presumptuous to suggest that the
the Great New Zealand Smoke-Free Week was the single cause of this reduction, but we do know from responses to the survey that we created the environment which encouraged people to make the decision to stop smoking, and 84 per cent of the smokers surveyed approved of the campaign,”
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