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  •   Home > News > Health & Safety

    Many smokers and recent former smokers seem to have been open, to the last Government's smokefree policies

    Many smokers and recent former smokers seem to have been open, to the last Government's smokefree policies


    Otago University research -- published in the latest New Zealand Medical Journal -- has looked into attitudes to the policies, including banning tobacco products for people born after a certain date.

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