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  • The Two-Faced Tobacco Industry: Transformation and Cigarillos

    … product : the cigarillo “Chesterfield Leaf”, has led many to ask how launching a cheaper cigarette-like product fits with … deter people who would otherwise have tried to quit from making a cessation attempt and undermines efforts to …
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  • Current and future generations must flourish: Time for a long-term and global perspective on pandemic and other catastrophic risks

    … NZ Parliamentary Commissioner for Catastrophic Risks to help prioritise action and ensure a safe and flourishing future.   New United Nations (UN) … global vaccination plan and sharing of technology and know-how. On pandemics generally, the SG writes: ‘[G]lobal health …
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  • Flooding, public health – and the need for more emphasis on prevention

    … preventive action by central and local government so as to better reduce the health and economic impacts of flooding … to have mental health impacts when they cause displacement from homes, ruin livelihoods and disrupt communities. For … in Europe (9), and there is also experimental work on how tree planting reduces water run-off (10). Research in NZ …
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  • (Un)licensed to kill: do we need to regulate how tobacco is sold?

    … recent articles by Aspire2025 researchers have explored how tobacco sales in New Zealand could be more effectively … how stronger tobacco supply policies would contribute to the Government’s smokefree 2025 goal.   It may come as a … smoking initiation, but also need to help quitters to stay quit. An effective way of bringing about this change is …
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  • Poor ventilation in public transport settings in Aotearoa NZ: New data for buses and trains

    … 2  levels above 800 ppm). These and other NZ findings (eg, from a 2022 study of Wellington’s Metlink buses) are … transport companies and central/local government can take to improve the situation – including adopting relevant … airborne infections such as influenza and RSV. How we collected the data We measured carbon dioxide levels …
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  • “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a new Action Plan to achieve our smokefree goal

    … Kore (tobacco free) Aotearoa. A team led by researchers from ASPIRE 2025, supported by leading tobacco control … launch, Associate Minister of Health Nicky Wagner promised to consider the recommendations. Key features of “Achieving … of e-cigarettes in achieving Smokefree Aotearoa 2025, and how the measures in the plan can facilitate maximising their …
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  • The Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty and tobacco: no cause to celebrate

    … In this blog we ask what the tobacco ‘carve out’ from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Treaty means for … settlement (ISDS), the TPP agreement as a whole applies to tobacco, and breaches of the TPP might, in principle, be … tobacco industry over tobacco control measures. No matter how ill-founded industry legal arguments may be, they may …
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  • How can we address tobacco companies’ manipulation of cigarette prices?

    … Governments around the world have used this knowledge to implement tobacco excise taxes, which raise the price of … a period of sustained excise tax increases , and explain how minimum pricing could help prevent tobacco companies from undermining measures designed to encourage smoking …
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  • Do Aotearoa’s new vaping regulations go far enough?

    … Summary New regulations to reduce youth vaping include important measures that will … announced. We welcome measures to protect young people from the burden dependence on nicotine imposes. While youth … announced, explore their potential impact, and consider how effectively they will provide rangatahi with …
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  • Health-related food taxes and subsidies: A critique of opposition arguments

    … opposition and a range of counter-arguments relating to potential harms, lack of efficacy, and incursion on … a salt tax (2). Our findings generated much interest from many quarters and, not unexpectedly, we encountered … and profits. Food marketing to children is an example of how such voluntary measures don’t appear to be effective. …
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