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Why bother?
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Cigarette smoking kills 5000 NZers annually. 653,000 (21% of) adults smoke (2006 Census) - with a 1 in 2
risk of dying early (13 years early on average). www.endsmoking.org.nz/cigarettesmokingrisks.htm
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Smoking is only slowly reducing: –
100 years may be needed to phase out cigarette deaths. http://www.endsmoking.org.nz/smokingprojections.htm
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2003-2008: No
reduction in cigarettes released per adult.
People smoke
for nicotine, but die from the smoke.
More
effective (smokeless) nicotine products can satisfy smokers so they
don’t need to smoke.
What smokers may not know
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Smoking kills, nicotine addicts.
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Cigarettes are far more
dangerous than any other tobacco, due to the inhaled smoke.
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Nicotine without smoke (the electronic cigarette,
Nicotine gum, lozenge, patch and inhaler, are about 1000 times safer.
The time has come to plan a
different future
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We seek to end the
sale of smoked tobacco: - the dirtiest,
deadliest form of nicotine.
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We support smokers
to quit outright, with the help of safe, clean nicotine (smokeless)
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This is not
prohibition. For those still wanting to smoke tobacco, smokers may
continue to privately, grow, possess and smoke
tobacco.
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How will this be
done within 10 years? Gradually and steadily:
5% changes every 6-12 months are needed to
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Increase tobacco
prices to reflect true cost
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Make cigarettes
less addictive with fewer sweeteners for children; and
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Sell more satisfying
nicotine substitutes
52% of adults want cigarette
sales ended.
www.endsmoking.org.nz/polls1.htm
Achieved to date
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Development of Cigarette substitutes. Trust members are researching, marketing or promoting fast-acting products
(nicotine pouch, mouth spray, lozenge, electronic cigarettes
and other cigarette substitutes).
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Change of name to EndSmokingNZ, 2009
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Registered as a charitable trust, 2009.
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Re-launch of this website, 2009.
Smoking not our future
We owe it to the next generation, to our children and
grandchildren, to create a New Zealand without a smoky future, where cigarettes for smoking are no
longer sold.
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