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  • Smoking and vaping among 14 to 15 year olds: Government action urgently needed

    … among young people who vape. We find the proportion of young people that vape daily and that have never smoked … given rising youth vaping . Manat ū Hauora, the Ministry of Health, accepts vaping offers a reduced harm alternative … loophole saw widespread and aggressive marketing of nicotine vaping products to young people, most of whom do …
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  • A public health perspective on taxing harmful products

    … has set up a Tax Working Group to consider reforms of the tax system. In this blog we briefly discuss some of the opportunities for tax reform that will potentially … drinking may have a protective effect against non-fatal heart attacks [22], the risk for other cardiovascular …
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  • Artificially sweetened beverages: What does the latest evidence tell us on health benefits versus harm?

    … Reducing consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) is an important current … there are multiple concerns about potential health risks of ASBs – although limited evidence and hard data. This blog … 2 diabetes and cardiovascular events (excluding coronary heart disease) for the highest versus lowest quantiles of …
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  • Avoidable hospitalisations: Helping our health system get through COVID-19

    … – we must also plan for other scenarios where thousands of New Zealanders are sick – including many urgently … 1 Better resilience for our health system in the face of COVID-19 must include reducing current avoidable pressures … system fails everyone: the trauma patients, the heart attacks, the cancer patients, the kids, all of us.’ 2 …
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  • The Island Bay cycleway – Terribly important and nothing new

    … and consequently determines the health and well-being of populations. But it is nothing new. The Island Bay story … places. In essence, this is a debate about the best use of a limited common resource. In Wellington and in many other … the bike lanes complain about a lack of transparency and failure of communication. Nicola Young, who is standing for …
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  • Using the CovidCard to enhance protection from COVID-19 at the NZ border

    … in the ongoing battle against COVID-19. Recent reporting of low levels of COVID-19 testing of border facing staff in … and quarantine (MIQ) facilities have highlighted a systems failure. Likewise, a number of high profile break-outs and … Kong) and digital technologies that might detect early symptoms of COVID-19 (Mishra et al, 2020). All of these …
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  • Red meat & processed meat: Summarising the Public Health isues

    … topic and also take a wider perspective on other aspects of meat consumption on human health and the environment, and risk communication.   The cancer agency of the World Health Organization, the International Agency … Cancer (IARC), has recently evaluated the carcinogenicity of consuming red and processed meat (1). Over 400 different …
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  • NZ’s Environmental Protection Authority in a muddle over weed killer

    … Authority (EPA) chose not to accept the assessment of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) … attempt to justify what happened gives a muddled account of risk assessment, and misrepresents her own Authority’s … as the EPA is about to undertake an expanded review of hazardous substances in New Zealand. Figure 1: 3D …
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  • Vaping very likely to be improving health in NZ – but how does this compare with other options?

    … a replacement for tobacco smoking, will improve the health of the NZ population. The estimated health gain is about the … cancer screening programme. Considering all sources of uncertainty, our study supports cautious liberalisation of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes – as NZ is doing. In this …
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  • Tobacco industry interference: Is the new Government meeting its international obligations?

    … narratives to oppose evidence-based policies. Use of these narratives by members of the coalition Government makes it timely to remind politicians of their FCTC obligations, call on them to declare any past …
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