Welcome to the Auahi Kore/Smokefree Tool Kit for health promoters in New Zealand

This tool kit is designed to give you an introduction, support, ideas and planning tools for your work in tobacco control (auahi kore/smokefree). Work can include supporting people to quit smoking, preventing smoking, and protecting family/children from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke.

Some stats we’d love to share

  • In 2008 the number of cigarettes available for consumption increased 4.3 percent to 2.5 billion

  • Positive effects in the body occur immediately after the last cigarette.

  • Smoking robs your loved ones of 15 years of your life.

  • Smoking is the single leading cause of preventable death.

  • Patches, lozenges and gum are safe and double your chances of quitting.

  • Smoking has caused about 1,300 people in New Zealand to have untreatable blindness.

     

  • Tobacco is the only consumer product that kills half its users when used as the manufacturer intends.

  • Smoking causes one in four of all cancer deaths in New Zealand.

  • Smoking kills 5000 New Zealanders every year.

  • One in two smokers will die from smoking.

  • Tobacco use is currently responsible for the death of 1 in 10 adults worldwide.

     

  • If you want to see some stats up here, or have any feedback, please let us know.

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