page_title: Smoking in New Zealand
section_title: Lobbying
hierarchical_section_title: Smoking in New Zealand / Lobbying
caption_attribution_description: English: National Tobacco Company Ltd building in Napier, New Zealand. New Zealand Historic Places Trust Register number: 1170.
context_page_description: The use of tobacco for smoking in New Zealand has been subjected to government regulation for a number of decades. On 10 December 2004, New Zealand became the third country in the world to make all indoor workplaces including bars and restaurants smoke-free.
context_section_description: On 5 September 2007, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) called for the removal of tobacco from sale by 2017. Tobacco displays in shops were banned in 2012. Winston Peters, himself a smoker, has long been lobbying for the rights of smokers. In the 2016 New Zealand budget, ACT New Zealand also came out lobbying on behalf of smokers, arguing that although tax on tobacco had doubled in the last five years, smoking rates had only dropped by 1.3 percent.
caption: The National Tobacco Company Ltd building in Napier, New Zealand.
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