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International: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific

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"Just over half of all Maori over the age of 15 smoke (54%); Maori men at a rate of

45%, Maori women 57%. As many as 68% of our pregnant Maori women smoke.

Smoking rates for our young Maori women in their 20s is as high as 77%, and 12% of

Maori children aged 10-14 are regular smokers."

Tobacco and Health, p. 908 (Marewa Glover)

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In New Zealand, about one in three deaths in the Maori native population are due to

smoking.

Abstract OS 2, 10th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Beijing, 1997

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Pacific Island smoking rates for French Polynesia are 41% of men and 27% of

women (1986 data), 40% prevalence in Guam (1989), 46% of men and 28% of

women in Papua New Guinea (1990), and 65% of men and 14% of women in Tonga

(1991).

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In Samoa in 1994, the smoking prevalence was 53% of men and 19% of women, as

well as 50% of male doctors. In Fiji, 59% of Melanesian men and 51% of Fijian Indian

men smoke, as do 31% of Melanesian women and 14% of Fijian Indian women (1988

data).

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