226 Results

  • Can we manage dual use of smoking and vaping more effectively?

    … found that smokers develop complex rituals around tobacco consumption, which may be as important as accessing … their initial goal from quitting to reducing their smoked tobacco use. Because smoking at even low levels greatly … they can find information about vaping. Finally, existing tobacco control policies could also play a role in reducing …
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  • Daily nicotine use increases among youth in Aotearoa NZ: The 2021 Snapshot Y10 Survey

    … for concern. Rising nicotine use is also consistent with tobacco companies’ predictions of an “additive” market. As we … blog examining a presentation made by British American Tobacco (BAT) to investment analysts in 2018, a slide … stem and reverse declines in cigarette sales”. Analyses of tobacco companies’ documents and presentations are consistent …
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  • A major new study on Kiwi health – can it inform decision-making?

    … (2013), Health Loss in New Zealand) Not surprisingly, tobacco smoking stands out.  9.1% of all DALYs could be averted if nobody had ever smoked.  Getting rid of tobacco out of New Zealand (as per the Government’s smokefree … intake) accounted for 11.4% of DALYs in 2006 – more than tobacco.  And overweight and obesity has probably now (i.e. …
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  • “100% Pure” – Public Health Goal Setting

    … for, through 100% elimination of a hazard or risk. Namely, tobacco, human papilloma virus (HPV), measles, and rotavirus. … be to have a law that actually prohibited all commercial tobacco sales in that year. Then any residual “smokers” would need to either grow their own tobacco or use highly regulated supplies of …
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  • What will it take to get to under 5% smoking prevalence 2025? Lots of cessation.

    … in a paper just published in the international journal Tobacco Control, led by Tak Ikeda and a presentation that he … BAU (business as usual) estimates to project out what the tobacco smoking prevalence will be in the future – the black … the Smokefree Oceania Conference. It suggests that ongoing tobacco tax increases as per recent years could get non-Māori …
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  • Smokefree cars legislation: Should the new government make this a priority?

    … death, among many other conditions.[1] The amount of tobacco smoke pollution in cars can be worse than in the … 4] Many New Zealand children still have to breathe tobacco smoke in cars. Surveys of Year 10 children show that … of children who are confined in small enclosed spaces with tobacco smoke.[14 15] In Australia, by contrast, the …
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  • Is youth vaping a problem in New Zealand?

    … since 1999. The survey data have documented changing tobacco use patterns and informed policies, including youth access to tobacco, 9 smoking in cars, 10 11 removal of tobacco point of sale displays, 12 and tobacco endgame goals. …
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  • NZ Health Strategy Consultation Draft – are the big prevention programmes really in there?

    … problem is that the big drivers of ill health (obesity, tobacco, income-adequacy, etc) fall off the table. Why? We do … elephants in the room (sugary foods, the Food Industry, tobacco) when the most important policy actions on these … interventions such as population-wide salt reduction and tobacco tax dwarf those for Herceptin and cancer care …
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  • An open letter to Cabinet Ministers from 74 health professors calling for a sugary drinks tax

    … Food and Grocery Council , are behaving exactly like the tobacco industry when faced with the prospect of effective … are as readily refuted for sugary drinks as they were for tobacco (see Annex 2, after signatures). Dr Coleman has … Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin George Thomson Tobacco control, Department of Public Health, University of …
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  • Key findings in the 2021/22 NZ Health Survey: Continued rapid falls in smoking prevalence and increases in vaping

    … people substitute vaping for smoking; (ii) the impact of tobacco control policies and interventions that have been … to be the main drivers of the decreases observed. Other tobacco control policies and interventions may have … are probably unlikely to be the main cause for these. New tobacco control policies since 2019/20 have been restricted …
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