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  • Risk proportionate regulation of nicotine and tobacco products: More rhetoric than reality

    … areas, smoked tobacco products have weaker regulation than vaping products. The Government must urgently address its … Reducing excise duty from Heated Tobacco Products, May 20 2024 10. …… The report back will also include advice on a … Smokefree 2025: Cracking Down on Youth Vaping, 23 May 2024 9. This paper is part of the Government’s broader work …
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  • Vaping very likely to be improving health in NZ – but how does this compare with other options?

    … study suggests that easier access to nicotine via vaping as a replacement for tobacco smoking, will improve the … [1]) took into account the various benefits of vaping (eg, the lower risk of vaping compared with smoking tobacco and increased …
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  • Expanding the Definition of Tobacco Harm Reduction: A Mindset Change to Help Achieve a Smokefree Aotearoa

    … access to and uptake of alternative nicotine products like vaping and recognises other core harm reduction approaches. … benefit of nicotine harm reduction products (such as vaping products) and rising usage rates. New products that … In Aotearoa NZ, recent data reporting on smoking and vaping show rapid declines in smoking, 5 a finding that some …
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  • Getting the Marketing Mix Right: A Commentary on NZ’s Forthcoming Vaping Regulations

    … regulation of tobacco and herbal smoking products to vaping products (or electronic nicotine delivery systems … reduce social approval of smoking, and discourage use of vaping and tobacco products among non-smokers, particularly … of regulated products (defined as “a tobacco product, vaping product or herbal smoking product”), from the …
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  • Parliamentary voting for smokefree over two decades: Implications for future progress

    … Bill) and now is part of the Coalition Government that in 2024 repealed the 2022 smokefree legislation. The NZ First … by political parties in the last two decades (2003 to mid-2024). Findings on voting patterns Out of 10 pieces of … smokefree policies, three on tobacco taxation and one on vaping policies (see Appendix ). The final two were the 2022 …
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  • Key findings in the 2021/22 NZ Health Survey: Continued rapid falls in smoking prevalence and increases in vaping

    … in smoking prevalence and increase in e-cigarette (EC) use/vaping observed in last year’s survey have continued. Key … key findings about smoking and e-cigarette (EC) use/vaping from the NZ Health Survey (NZHS). Previous analyses … large increase in daily and current (at least monthly) EC/vaping prevalence, particularly among young people aged <25 …
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  • The Government’s transport plans work against our health

    … draft Government Policy Statement (GPS) on Land Transport 2024-34 neither supports the health and wellbeing of the … inactivity. The policies outlined in the draft GPS 2024 are, as a package, likely to worsen the already high … and forced migration. 31 The implications of the draft GPS 2024 for health and health equity  The draft GPS 2024 takes …
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  • Retailing of vaping products – New NZ Research

    … health community hold divergent views on how access to vaping products or electronic nicotine delivery systems … which would allow them to offer product samples and permit vaping onsite. However, aside from setting out the … propose restricting the sale of ENDS, HTPs, or associated vaping items such as e-liquids, to specialist vape stores. 2 …
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  • Ten things we can learn from new smoking and vaping data about progress to Smokefree Aotearoa 2025

    … The data also show increased uptake of e-cigarettes/vaping over the last 3-4 years, but the contribution of vaping to helping achieve the smokefree goal is not yet … of the population that has ever tried e-cigarettes/vaping increased from 16.2% in 2015/16 to 21.2% in 2018/19, …
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  • Media release: Youth vaping -The implications of addiction

    … The growth in youth vaping will mean an increase in nicotine addiction among … anxiety and mood disorders. The number of young people vaping is higher in New Zealand than in comparable countries … and according to Dr Jude Ball from ASPIRE, advances in vaping technology mean the vapes are delivering high doses of …
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