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Provided with quitting advice and referral by a health care worker, by neighbourhood<br />

deprivation<br />

Current smokers aged 15–64 years living in <strong>the</strong> most deprived areas (NZDep2006<br />

quintile 5) who had seen a health care worker in <strong>the</strong> past 12 months were more likely<br />

than those in <strong>the</strong> least deprived areas (NZDep2006 quintiles 1 and 2) to have been<br />

provided with quitting advice or information and referred to quitting programmes or<br />

given quitting products by a health care worker in <strong>the</strong> past 12 months, after adjusting for<br />

age (p-values < 0.05) (Figure 48).<br />

Figure 48: Provided with quitting advice and referral by a health care worker, among<br />

15–64-year-old current smokers who had seen a health care worker in <strong>the</strong> past<br />

12 months, by NZDep2006 quintile, <strong>2009</strong> (age-standardised prevalence)<br />

60<br />

Percent<br />

50<br />

40<br />

30<br />

20<br />

10<br />

0<br />

29.7 24.8 32.8 33.3 43.8<br />

1<br />

Least deprived<br />

2 3 4 5<br />

Most deprived<br />

NZDep2006 quintile<br />

Source: <strong>2009</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong> Tobacco Use Survey<br />

Note: Age standardised to <strong>the</strong> WHO world population.<br />

72 Tobacco Use in <strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong>

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