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  • Progress toward Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 – how might tobacco retail restrictions contribute?

    … access to tobacco retail outlets is thought to facilitate smoking uptake in youth and to reduce (the success) of smoking cessation in adults (4-6). In NZ, retail access to … and would incur travel costs and thus decrease smoking. But, until now, the estimated effects of tobacco …
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  • How should we manage the harm caused by tobacco product waste?

    … in the 1950s and 60s, in response to growing evidence that smoking caused lung cancer and other serious (and often … belief that filters reduced the risk they face from smoking, nearly all cigarettes smoked now contain filters. 4 … litter receptacles , a solution that risks normalising smoking and, according to observational studies, has limited …
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  • A public health perspective on taxing harmful products

    … (eg, more investment in mass media campaigns to reduce smoking). This approach is argued for internationally eg, … the most effective and inexpensive way of reducing tobacco smoking prevalence, consumption, initiation and inequalities in smoking” [10]. In NZ, tobacco tax can be justified in terms …
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  • What does recent biomarker literature say about the likely harm from e-cigarettes?

    … respiratory disease may be at least half that of tobacco smoking. The results for cancer-related toxicants were … biomarker studies where vaping is compared to tobacco smoking (ordered within disease categories by relative level … assessment (repeatedly) and confounder assessment (smoking proper, socioeconomic position, BMI, etc). What might …
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  • The race to be the first place in Aotearoa to be smokefree

    … to develop and implement ‘legislation to prohibit smoking outside cafés, restaurants and bars’ (6). So, with … A partnership with Community and Public Health provides smoking cessation support for tenants where required. … Council planning is also special in aiming to have a smoking prevalence for South Auckland of under 3% by 2025. …
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  • New Zealand E-cigarette trial in Lancet – keeping it in perspective

    … how good e-cigarettes are for people wanting to quit smoking.  This is overstating the study findings. And to be … real risks that e-cigarettes may just allow people to keep smoking real tobacco, as they can use e-cigarettes at work … the likely harm is an order(s) of magnitude less than smoking tobacco. But the balance of harms and benefits is …
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  • Perspective: Options for licensed retailing of nicotine-containing E-Cigarettes in NZ

    … competent to deliver advice on e-cigarette use to support smoking cessation; they should also demonstrate knowledge of the ABC model smoking cessation, and support referral systems. Similar … to only community pharmacies would frame this product as a smoking cessation aid or, at the very least, a harm-reduction …
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  • What can Aotearoa NZ learn from Australia’s new vaping policies?

    … among young people. 2   Adults who wish to switch from smoking to vaping have different needs; they require a device … people who smoke will need a satisfying alternative to smoking, before they can switch successfully to vaping. NZ’s … do not appear to have adversely affected the decline in smoking attributed to vaping in the UK . Plain packaging …
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  • Ethnic inequalities in mortality in NZ and how to reduce them further

    … important risk factor causing health loss in NZ is tobacco smoking (7). Our results for ethnic inequalities in lung … and other cancers) reflect the marked ethnic gradient in smoking in this country: both currently and as projected into … implemented a number of useful measures to reduce tobacco smoking (eg, extension of the yearly programme of tobacco tax …
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  • False zombie arguments about illicit tobacco shouldn’t be given any more oxygen

    … declined in absolute terms in tandem with declines in smoking prevalence and consumption. Arguments about growth in … should be reversed to enable a rapid and equitable fall in smoking and, with it, the demand for illicit tobacco 'Zombie … the absolute size of the illicit market declined as smoking prevalence and consumption decreased. 7 A …
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