Next week, Dame Tariana Turia will be one of the recipients of the American Cancer Society Luther L Terry Awards, for “exemplary leadership in tobacco control”. This will come as no surprise to her friends and colleagues in her native New Zealand, who have witnessed an extraordinary journey in which Turia has helped put tobacco control centre stage as a public health priority for the nation, with its ambitious goal of making New Zealand tobacco free by 2025.

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