TY - JOUR T1 - Events of 11 September 2001 significantly reduced calls to the New Zealand Quitline JF - Tobacco Control JO - Tob Control SP - 280 LP - 280 DO - 10.1136/tc.11.3.280-a VL - 11 IS - 3 AU - N Wilson AU - E Hodgen AU - J Mills AU - G Thomson Y1 - 2002/09/01 UR - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/11/3/280.2.abstract N2 - New Zealand has a national (free) telephone Quitline service that is promoted through regular mass media campaigns. Data are routinely collected on the over 100 callers per day. We used this data source to investigate the impact of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in the USA on calls to this service.On Wednesday 12 September (11 September in New York was 12 September in New Zealand) there was a sudden decline in the number of new callers to the Quitline (only 137 callers relative to 237 on the previous day—a 42% reduction). Similarly, relative … ER -