15 Apr 2021

Smokefree proposals could be game changer - health researcher

From Lately, 10:30 pm on 15 April 2021

Marketing experts say today's Smokefree proposals could be a game changer for helping people wean themselves off their addictions to tobacco. The restrictions include reducing nicotine, restricting where cigarettes can be sold, lifting the age to prevent young people buying cigarettes, and creating a licensing regime. Otago University's professor of public health Janet Hoek talks to Susana Leuitaua about the proposals.

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