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Barry Soper: It's unlikely the smokefree targets will be reached

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 19 Nov 2025, 5:37pm
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Barry Soper: It's unlikely the smokefree targets will be reached

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 19 Nov 2025, 5:37pm

The Smokefree 2025 goal was created in 2010 with the hope that fewer than 5 percent of Kiwis will smoke by 2025, but that's looking unlikely.

The annual New Zealand Health survey's confirmed rates are stagnating just below 7 percent - and vaping rates growing. 

Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent Barry Soper explains further.

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