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  • The Smokefree 2025 Action Plan: key findings from the ITC New Zealand (EASE) project

    … of smoked tobacco products by permitting these products to be sold only in a small number of specialised stores or … and stakeholders have been invited to comment on the proposals. Submissions have now closed, but there is ongoing … almost a quarter (23%) anticipated that they would reduce how much they smoked. Overall, almost half of the …
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  • The UK Government shows leadership with a Soft Drink Tax announcement

    … 25 teaspoons (1,2). Beverages are the highest contributor to total sugars intake for Kiwi kids and the second highest … to work? There is a vast amount of evidence that taxes can reduce consumption in other areas: especially for tobacco, … has higher obesity levels and obesity is probably a more important contributor to health inequalities. Furthermore, NZ …
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  • Tax policy as a key health determinant: Reform for the Covid-19 reset

    … Tax is the way we all share our resources in contributing to a healthy, decent and just society. Tax reform options should be included in pre-election party proposals. More importantly, we need to continue to talk … out of the incomes of the poor and thus does nothing to reduce inequalities. Covid-19 has emphasised the gravity of …
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  • The Omicron waves – Comparing Aotearoa NZ and Australia in four key graphs

    … in higher hospitalisation and ICU occupancy compared to NZ. However, when examining the Auckland region compared … ( appendix figure 1 ). Given that the booster is known to reduce severe illness from Omicron infection, this factor may … (and subsequent waves), we suggest the following immediate steps for the NZ Government: Intensify efforts to encourage …
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  • Possible strategic approaches to achieve the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

    … per annum increases in tobacco tax alone will not be able to achieve the 2025 Goal. In this blog post we outline our … action on tobacco control (including among smokers) (6). But the current downward trend in smoking prevalence is very … tax on low-income NZ citizens or other fiscal measures to reduce housing costs, fuel poverty and other forms of …
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  • Emphasis on indigenous forests in ETS would benefit public health

    … that in its current form, the ETS is not expected to drive gross emissions reductions. Instead, the ETS has … the Royal Society of NZ wrote “[w]ell-designed policies to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions will not only limit … Wales identified negative effects on mental health as an important health consequence of flooding. 12 Monocultural …
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  • NZ Health Strategy Consultation Draft – are the big prevention programmes really in there?

    … that actually would make a meaningful difference to health in Aotearoa NZ. The draft Strategy has many strong … have the biggest health impact (a goal of the strategy), reduce health inequalities (another goal of the strategy) and … (sugary foods, the Food Industry, tobacco) when the most important policy actions on these items are issues of …
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  • Expansion of “green zones” may provide a chance for the global eradication of COVID-19

    … NZ and Australia). The COVID-19 pandemic response led to two unexpected major advances. Perhaps most surprisingly, … countries and globally. Also progressive elimination would reduce the risks of more dangerous variants emerging in … for more severe global pandemics in the future, it is important that NZ establishes the principle that the …
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  • Potential health co-benefits from eradicating rats, stoats and possums in NZ towns and cities

    … city level eg, Wellington. The primary benefits will be to native birds and enhanced biodiversity, as well as for … rat and stoat eradication on the Miramar Peninsula, and proposals for pest-free campaigns in other suburbs. Although … (21). But rats can damage building insulation and hence reduce its insulating properties. Damaged roofing can result …
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  • Why eliminating Covid-19 is critical: Since more waves of infection, hospitalisations and deaths are inevitable for other countries until a vaccine arrives

    … There are really only three ways that a population can beat Covid-19: (i) eliminate the virus and … (ii) allow a sufficient proportion of the population to get infected and become immune to re-infection so there … then there would be one death among 100 infected people. But calculating the IFR for Covid-19 is very difficult …
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