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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa Action Plan: Why this could eliminate smoking disparities for Māori

    … control 1 . The Plan specifically references eliminating smoking related inequities, strengthening Māori governance … Plan in relation to kaupapa Tupeka Kore and high rates of smoking among Māori. The views offered in this blog are those … as usual tobacco control measures not enough to address smoking disparities. Traditional, business as usual (BAU), …
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  • Smoking and vaping among 14 to 15 year olds: Government action urgently needed

    … from the ASH Year 10 Snapshot survey and explore trends in smoking among young people who vape. We find the proportion … and 2023. These results suggest vaping is not displacing smoking, which was already low among Y10 students, but is … policies that protect young people from both vaping and smoking. Vaping’s role in fostering population wellbeing …
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  • The 5000 annual deaths caused by smoking also matter

    … every day. We critically review the narrative that smoking is a “choice”, a mantra perpetuated by the tobacco … tragic – and equally avoidable – loss of life caused by smoking ( an estimated 5000 people every year ). Deaths on … and what has made us so blasé about the people killed by smoking? We suggest a well-propagated “choice” narrative …
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  • Retailing of vaping products – New NZ Research

    … case and propose that only retailers skilled in supporting smoking cessation should sell ENDS. In this blog, we probe … in NZ). Image by  haiberliu  from  Pixabay Balancing smoking initiation among youth with cessation among smokers … to outlets selling tobacco is associated with higher youth smoking. 3 These findings suggest that any addictive product, …
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  • The Smokefree 2025 Action Plan: key findings from the ITC New Zealand (EASE) project

    … findings from people who smoke or have recently quit smoking and who participated in the ITC New Zealand project … from 2016-2021. The blog documents attitudes towards smoking and quitting, support for, and perceived impacts of, … increasing expenditure on media campaigns to promote smoking cessation and discourage uptake of smoking among …
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  • NZ Health Survey data released today reinforce Smokefree Legislation is crucial to reduce smoking inequities

    … Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) data for 2022/2023 show that smoking prevalence continues to decrease however very substantial inequities in smoking remain. Māori continue to bear a much heavier burden of harm from smoking than non-Māori University of Otago researchers from …
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  • The case for denicotinising tobacco in Aotearoa NZ remains strong: response to online critique

    … of the Smokefree Aotearoa Action Plan would affect smoking prevalence. Given the interest in the study due to … of smoked tobacco products would likely profoundly reduce smoking prevalence and health inequities. The key criticism – … highly effective as the key policy to dramatically lower smoking prevalence and reduce health loss and inequalities …
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  • New e-liquid flavour restrictions: Potential impacts on young people and people who smoke

    … to sell diverse flavours could foster switching from smoking to ENDS use and accelerate progress towards the … and by employing the same appeals once used to foster smoking uptake among young people, ENDS marketing quickly … that might seem low, but that’s in schools where smoking has hit basically zero per cent .” 8 NZ youth studies …
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  • Phasing out smoking: The Tobacco-Free Generation policy

    … the health of the population. It’s time to address the smoking pandemic, since ‘ cigarettes kill more people each … fire, and murder combined ’. Two key facts about smoking are that: Nicotine is highly addictive (reckoned … Send a misleading message that there is a ‘safe age’ for smoking, and Establish the cigarette as ‘a badge of coming of …
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  • Reducing nicotine in smoked tobacco products: A pivotal feature of the Smokefree Aotearoa proposals

    … this strategy is likely to have a profound impact on smoking prevalence and, if implemented as part of a … Zealand. This innovative policy could profoundly reduce smoking uptake by adolescents and young people by minimising the risk that young people who experiment with smoking become addicted to nicotine. It could also prompt and …
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