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Smoking rates for Maori women falling although 800 Maori families would have had an extra loved one around Xmas table if not for smoking
Jump to full article: NZCity (nz), 2009-12-24
Intro: Quitline says 800 Maori families would have an extra loved one around the Christmas table tomorrow if it was not for smoking, but more people are trying to give up.
New figures show 54,000 people signed up to the smoking cessation service Quitline this year, twice the total from four years ago. Daily smoking rates for Maori women have dropped from 49 percent to 40 percent since 2003. Over the same period, smoking among 14-15 year old Maori girls dropped from 34 percent to 22 percent.
Quitline chief executive Paula Snowden says there are several reasons why people are giving up smoking including because of the cost, because they are worried their children think they are going to die, for health reasons or because they are just fed up with it.
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