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Reduction in overall mortality from cessation Smokers who stop smoking before age 40 (preferably well before age 40), avoid more than 90% of the excess risk for overall mortality among those who continue to smoke

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These measures made New Zealand the second most expensive place in the world to buy cigarettes (after Australia), 45 KPMG, Illicit tobacco in New Zealand, 2017, and led to the proportion of people over 15 years old who smoke at least once a month nearly halving, from 19.7% to 10.9%, between 2010/11 and 2020/21

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But is there an appetite for similar reform in Australia a country that has, in the past, considered itself a leader on tobacco law reform