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  • How can we address tobacco companies’ manipulation of cigarette prices?

    … requires tobacco companies to supply data on the number of cigarette sticks released each year and the retail price of … We identified four price partitions in the NZ factory-made cigarette market: super value; budget; everyday and premium. … partition over time. In further analyses, we compared the cigarette stick prices we would have expected to see, if the …
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  • Regulating vaping and new nicotine products: Are tobacco companies’ goals aligned with public health objectives?

    … reported that most (58%) of the increase in people using e-cigarette (vapour) products was made up of new entrants (see … principals claim there is a concerning rise in youth e-cigarette use , and ever-use of e-cigarettes among Year 10 … to 37% in 2019 .[4] Although the rate of youth daily e-cigarette use remains low, it too increased between 2018 and …
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  • The Two-Faced Tobacco Industry: Transformation and Cigarillos

    … Leaf”, has led many to ask how launching a cheaper cigarette-like product fits with PMI’s vision of a smoke-free … Leaf in June this year exploited this loophole. Unlike the cigarette variants within PMI’s lowest-priced Chesterfield … is classified as a cigarillo (a small cigar) rather than a cigarette. Media reports indicate that Chesterfield Leaf …
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  • New Zealand can lead the world in tobacco control: Plain packaging 2.0

    … more effectively with smokers; introducing dissuasive cigarette sticks and rolling papers, and foregrounding … however, although smokers display packages, they consume cigarette sticks. Unlike the tobacco industry, researchers … little attention to the design and appearance of cigarette sticks. However, we recently tested how smokers …
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  • Strengthening tobacco policy: The case for best practice packaging and regulation

    … who smoke to make quit attempts. Introduce dissuasive cigarette sticks Other countries are also introducing measures to change cigarette sticks’ design by requiring them to feature … best practice and move swiftly to introduce dissuasive cigarette sticks. Remove cigarette filters Many people who …
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  • Potential new regulatory options for e-cigarettes/ANDS in NZ

    … E-cigarette usage is growing in NZ and around the world but the … in PubMed when searching for relevant terms (review and ‘e-cigarette’/‘electronic cigarette’); and multiple systematic reviews exist e.g., …
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  • Why the New Zealand Government should reconsider abandoning denicotinised cigarettes

    … cigarettes leads to significant reductions in cigarette smoking and dependence, and increased quit attempts … of 0.8 mg/g; a reduction of over 90% compared to a regular cigarette. Robust evidence to support denicotinising … these products will likely reduce health risks compared to cigarette smoking. 24 Supply of and demand for illicit …
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  • How the tobacco industry targets young people to achieve a new generation of smokers

    … strategy had increased Camel’s share of the children’s cigarette market segment from 0.5% to 32.8% (estimated sales … children correctly matched Joe Camel with a picture of a cigarette, while over 90% of 6-year-old children correctly matched Joe Camel and a cigarette.[11] Use of dare-devil characters who mixed …
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  • Smoking and vaping among 14 to 15 year olds: Government action urgently needed

    … represent young people who may only have had a puff on a cigarette once in the past through to those who smoke … who did not smoke daily (and may only have puffed on a cigarette once) declined from over 60% in 2021 to under 50% … (from 15% in 2000 to 3% in 2013) occurred before e-cigarette use was prevalent (1% daily use in 2015 the first …
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  • Reducing nicotine in smoked tobacco products: A pivotal feature of the Smokefree Aotearoa proposals

    … people who, having quit smoking, occasionally smoke a cigarette. 1-3 It aligns with the 2010 Māori Affairs Select … around 0.4 mg or less nicotine per gram tobacco or per cigarette. Investigators have generally concluded that most … in VLNCs are around 25 times lower than in a standard cigarette. Second, some commentators have argued that …
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