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Report advocates a smoke-free New Zealand by 2025

A parliamentary committee in New Zealand has released a report calling for the country to become smoke-free in just 15 years' time. About 20% of Kiwis currently smoke. The country has already outlawed smoking in prisons, a ban which will come into effect in July 2011.  Read: Times Live

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