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  • Expanding the Definition of Tobacco Harm Reduction: A Mindset Change to Help Achieve a Smokefree Aotearoa

    … tobacco harm reduction will likely support realisation of the Smokefree Aotearoa Goal, this approach is often … that goes beyond supporting access to and uptake of alternative nicotine products like vaping and recognises … These include measures that decrease the harmfulness of smoked tobacco products to the user and to others, and …
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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 … have beneficial flow-on effects through the health system. What is the relation between alcohol and ED use? About 10% of … Corporation is well placed to fund and expedite this. What works best to lower the impact of alcohol use on health? …
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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 … means for public health. Despite the partial exemption of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), the TPP … is a major overstatement. The issues The TTP as a whole does not constitute a tobacco carve-out. There are a number …
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  • Tobacco industry ‘transformation’ – more smoke and mirrors?

    … Tomorrow’ (Figure 2) – by reducing the health impact of their business through ‘Portfolio transformation’ that … actions . 3 4 Hence, independent and critical assessment of tobacco industry transformation is urgently needed. The … sales of their combusted products in some markets and see what happens? In relation to the second and third essential …
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  • A fat week – debates about saturated fat that will not go away

    … methods to improve the quality and causal inference of our research – more of that below.  During the week, the … saturated fat with health is not complex, not nuanced, and does not vary over time and place.  Diet is complex.  For … co-occurrence of other risk factors, most notably smoking; what the ‘business as usual’ diseases are dominating in the …
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  • Evidence supports a proposed Parliamentary Bill to reduce harm from alcohol sponsorship of sport

    … announced a Member’s Bill to end alcohol sponsorship of sport, acting on recommendations by three … alcohol in Māori communities. 11 Alcohol Sponsorship – how does it work? Sport is emotionally captivating, highly … expected audience is 80% or more adults. In addition, any mention or portrayal (orally and/or visually) of the alcohol …
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  • Key findings on smoking and e-cigarette use prevalence and trends in the 2020/21 NZ Health Survey

    … (EC) use from a nationally representative sample of 9709 adults aged 15 years and over between September 2020 … and current EC use prevalence. The NZHS Explorer data does not identify the proportion of people who are dual … are not due to chance or greatly affected by bias, what could explain the observed decline in smoking …
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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 … smokefree laws would force tobacco onto the black market. “What is now going to happen is all those dairy owners as part … Tobacco “Experience has demonstrated that prohibition does not work. It merely hands over control of the market to …
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  • Calling for action on suicide prevention in Aotearoa

    … Summary The Ministry of Health is inviting submissions on the second Draft Suicide … New Zealand.    This Briefing opens the conversation about what a whole-of-society approach might look like and what an effective Suicide Action Plan must include. Every …
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  • Reducing the health burden from contaminated drinking water in NZ: Opportunities arising from the new Water Services Bill

    … We also detail how addressing the upstream determinants of water-related disease burden is a far better approach than … The COVID-19 experience also raises the benefits of consolidating NZ’s public health organisations into a … as many as 40% of New Zealanders receive water that does not comply with current drinking water standards or has …
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