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  • The Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty and tobacco: no cause to celebrate

    … dispute settlement (ISDS), the TPP agreement as a whole applies to tobacco, and breaches of the TPP might, … the fundamental inconsistencies between agreements such as the TPP and public health in general are left untouched.   … measures aimed at tobacco control (TPP Article 29.5). This has been described as a ‘tobacco carve-out’, and a …
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  • Using Rapid Antigen Tests to improve COVID-19 control in Aotearoa NZ

    … RT-PCR tests amplify segments of genetic material (such as part of the genome of SARS-CoV-2) to detect the presence … are considered by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the gold standard for COVID-19 testing. [2] A healthcare … type of COVID-19 tests that are used internationally, [4, 5] are the rapid antigen tests (RAT), which include the …
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  • Regulating vaping and new nicotine products: Are tobacco companies’ goals aligned with public health objectives?

    … young people and non-nicotine users. This blog – intended as a follow-up article to further promote discussion – … and alternative nicotine products (which we refer to as ‘next generation products’ or NGPs throughout this blog) … have similar long-term health effects to smoked tobacco.[5-8] Figure 4. Source: [2] BAT describes heated tobacco and …
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  • Smoke, heat or vapour? Ideas for risk-proportionate regulation to make World Smokefree Day irrelevant by 2025

    … Smokefree Aotearoa 2025. Tobacco and vaping products such as e-cigarettes vary greatly in their likely adverse health … progress towards New Zealand’s Smokefree 2025 goal. As well as clarifying the appropriate regulatory approaches … reduced from 18% to 11% and daily smoking from 10.3% to 5.3% [4, 5]. Table 1  Trends in current smoking prevalence in …
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  • “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a response to critiques

    … access to alternative nicotine-delivery systems, such as nicotine-containing e-cigarettes, would be more effective. … use to minimal levels by 2025, and defines this goal as less than 5%, and as close as possible to 0%, daily smoking prevalence. …
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  • Using a fun “Mask Day” at school to promote pandemic protection in the NZ community

    … recently recommended using face coverings or fabric masks as a strategy to contain COVID-19 pandemic virus … of pandemic virus transmission is likely low, and as a consequence low levels of mask uptake are being … providing disease control while Alert Levels are lowered [5]. Images provided with permission by North East Valley …
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  • How best to classify and count NZ’s border control failures in the COVID-19 pandemic?

    … (9 via MIQ facilities and one via a port), and at least 5 “internal MIQ facility failures” involving spread between … very well overall with its COVID-19 pandemic response – as acknowledged recently by a first place in a world ranking … favourably to countries using a “suppression” strategy, as opposed to NZ’s elimination strategy [2]. Credit is owed …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could taking the nicotine out of smoked tobacco products help us get there?

    … in smoked tobacco products to very low levels (known as very low nicotine cigarettes or VLNCs). The APDD also … a New Zealand modelling study that we recently published as a pre-print on the medRxiv site . 1 Methods Using an Excel … used indicator of achieving Smokefree 2025 of under 5% smoking prevalence will be achieved for the overall …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: A core measure in New Zealand’s endgame strategy

    … smoking prevalence equitably, to below five percent (and as close to zero percent as possible), among all population groups by 2025. We then … having done so), will rapidly reduce smoking prevalence.[5] Individual studies and reviews indicate that reducing the …
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  • Retailing of vaping products – New NZ Research

    … products should be arranged. Some believe ENDS should be as widely available as smoked tobacco and argue for liberal access. However, … such as the “mouth-feel”, “hand-feel” or “throat-hit”. 4,5  Others found it difficult to know which e-liquid nicotine …
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