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Asked smoking status by a general practitioner, by ethnic group
Table 12 gives an indication of the proportion of 15–64-year-olds who had seen a GP in
the past 12 months who were asked by a GP if they had ever been or currently were a
smoker, by ethnic group.
Table 12: Asked smoking status by a GP in the past 12 months, among 15–64-year-old total
population who had seen a GP in the past 12 months, by ethnic group (unadjusted
prevalence)
Ethnic group Prevalence (95% CI) Estimated number
European/Other 43.8 (41.3–46.4) 702,000
Māori 60.9 (56.7–65.2) 152,700
Pacific 58.0 (51.1–64.9) 66,000
Asian 44.0 (36.7–51.3) 98,000
Source: 2009 New Zealand Tobacco Use Survey
Note: Total response ethnicity has been used.
After adjusting for age, 15–64-year-old Māori and Pacific people who had seen a GP in
the past 12 months were found to be significantly more likely than all 15–64-year-olds to
report that they had been asked if they had ever been or currently were a smoker by a
GP in the past 12 months (Figure 53). European/Other people were significantly less
likely to have been asked their smoking status by a GP in the past 12 months than the
total 15–64-year-old population.
There was no significant difference between Asian people and the total population in the
age-standardised prevalence of having being asked their smoking status by a GP in the
past 12 months.
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