Friday, 16 April 2021, 5:32 am
Tala Pasifika; Pacific Action For Change congratulate
Associate Minister of Health, Dr. Ayesha Verrall for
todayтАЩs release of a strong comprehensive action plan to
achieve a Smokefree Aotearoa.
Tala Pasifika Director,
Lealailepule Edward Cowley says "I am so pleased to see the
Government have delivered on their Manifesto promise to
prioritise the development of this plan because smoking
rates for Pacific people are still too high and the status
quo has not been able to reduce our smoking rates
significantly to reach the 2025 goal"
The prevalence
for Pacific smokers in 2013 was 23% and in 2018 census it
was 21%, with over a third of current Pacific smokers living