The Government is being lobbied to bring the tobacco plain-packaging bill back to Parliament for a final vote, now the policy has been found to work "almost like a vaccine against tobacco" in Australia.
The health select committee last year supported the bill but the Government has delayed bringing it back to the House pending the outcome of the challenges against the Australian law by the tobacco industry.
But National support partner the Maori Party and lobby group Action on Smoking on Health (Ash) now say the decline in smoking seen in Australia since its "standardized" packaging law came into force in 2013 means New Zealand can dally no longer.
And public health expert Robert Beaglehole, a University of Auckland emeritus professor, says plain packaging in New Zealand "must be passed with urgency".
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