Smoke Free New Zealand Report: Lessons from New Zealand’s success

African countries inarguably need to emulate New Zealand to become smoke-free in the shortest time possible.

New Zealand’s smoking cessation report, launched at a conference in Warsaw, Poland, featuring medical professionals and policy experts, will motivate and support countries worldwide to emulate New Zealand’s triumph. The country is set to become the first nation to attain official ‘smoke-free’ status alongside Sweden.

New Zealand’s game-changing strategy, which remarkably reduced its smoking rate to less than 5% of the population in just five years, is the guide that Africa requires further to accelerate a decline in smoking rates on the continent.