Youth smoking and vaping down

Ash have released their latest annual survey of Year 10 students with over 30,000 taking part.

This is a great trend. Only 1% of Year 10 students are daily smokers and the proportion who vape has also been declining over the last two years or so.

As always the most healthy option is to neither vape nor smoke. But if people need to get a nicotine fix, vaping is far less harmful than smoking.

The daily smoking rates by ethnicity and sex are:

• Māori...