Tobacco control publications

This document is the Ministry of Health’s response to recommendations made in 'After the Smoke has Cleared: Evaluation of the Impact of a New Smokefree Law - Outstanding issues and recommendations for policy and research' by the authors of ‘After the Smoke has Cleared: Evaluation of the Impact of a New Smokefree Law’.

This report details an evaluation of the process and outcomes of the sections of the 2003 Smoke-free Environments Amendment Act relating to the extension of smokefree workplace from the provisions of the Smoke-free Environments Act (1990). Excluded is an evaluation of the impact of the SEAA (2003) on schools and early childhood centres. The report looks at changing attitudes towards smokefree policies, secondhand smoke exposure, health impacts, smoking prevalence and behaviours and economic impacts.

Clearing the Smoke: A five-year plan for tobacco control in New Zealand 2004–2009 represents another milestone in the progress towards minimising the harm from tobacco in this country. It has four goals that support the best-practice strands of a comprehensive tobacco programme.