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  • Will liberalising nicotine availability increase quitting?

    … to be less harmful than smoking tobacco when smokers make a full transition from smoking to vaping (1). It also … favours retail reduction interventions (4,5). Rather than make e-cigarettes as readily available as smoked tobacco, the … products overlooks the complex transition smokers must make, if they are to quit smoking using e-cigarettes. In the …
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  • Regulating vaping and new nicotine products: Are tobacco companies’ goals aligned with public health objectives?

    … The public will soon have the opportunity to make submissions on the long-awaited Smokefree Environments … smokers in quitting smoking” , their investor documents make no such claim. Instead, BAT appear to celebrate dual- …
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  • Public Health at the Movies: A Selection of 35 Top Movies

    … detail the movies and reflect on some of the aspects that make them both educational and entertaining.   A systematic … Food, Inc. (2008), King Corn (2007), and Super Size Me (2004). The most informative documentaries are Fed Up and Food, Inc. but Super Size Me is certainly the most entertaining movie on this topic …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa Action Plan: Why this could eliminate smoking disparities for Māori

    … alter the broader environment in which people live, to make it easy for young people to remain smokefree and for … Party MP Hone Harawira proposed a private members bill to make tobacco sales illegal. …the tobacco companies can go to … We will no longer sacrifice our generations so you can make profits… 5 Shortly after the bill was presented to …
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  • Bioethicists, scientists and politicians; decision-making in a pandemic

    … to do it. It produced two tables one that outlined how we make decisions and the other on what decisions we make. It reflected the culture and beliefs of this country … that we need new decision making groups constituted to make these decisions. These decisions are currently made by …
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  • The health impacts of the First World War for NZ: A Review

    … military files and key data abstracted from them should make it easier for researchers to fill these knowledge gaps … military files and key data abstracted from them should make it easier for researchers to fill these knowledge gaps …
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  • The 5000 annual deaths caused by smoking also matter

    … 5000 people every year ). Deaths on our country’s roads make news headlines, particularly during holiday periods when … response to industry marketing, 9 well before they could make the “adult” choice tobacco companies propose occurs. Few … match challenges arguments that smoking is a choice people make freely and suggests it is, instead, one they struggle to …
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  • Smoke, heat or vapour? Ideas for risk-proportionate regulation to make World Smokefree Day irrelevant by 2025

    … of purchase laws) retailers. Packaging and warning labels Make e-liquids available in child-proof containers with … and tolerability of smoked tobacco products.     Aim to make smoked tobacco products less palatable and appealing, … of cigarettes for youth and young adults, and make smoked tobacco products ineffective nicotine delivery …
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  • E-bikes are the new cars- why don’t transport policy makers treat them seriously?

    … car ownership levels? Reducing the number of cars would make our cities safer and nicer places to live. Will e-bikes … is one of the ways to do it. Image supplied by author Show me the money: How does promoting e-bikes compare financially …
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  • “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a response to critiques

    … tobacco and nicotine-delivery products , which may make these products  more widely available. However, we focus … increase in availability An alternative approach is to make e-cigarettes more available, but with some restrictions. … to sell cigarettes and tobacco should be reduced to make them less easily available 57.9 33.5 The number of …
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