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  • Regulating vaping and new nicotine products: Are tobacco companies’ goals aligned with public health objectives?

    … 2025 researchers summarised the strengths and limitations of the Bill, and concluded that it contained several … yet could do more to protect the health of children, young people and non-nicotine users. This blog – intended as a … to investors and analysts.[1,2]  The content illustrates how BAT, at least, sees NGPs as an expanding market and a …
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  • It’s been 3 years since COVID entered New Zealand – here are 3 ways to improve our response

    … exceptionally low mortality during the first three years of the pandemic. However, widespread circulation of Covid-19 … appears to be driving an increase in excess mortality in many countries. Covid-19 is not influenza where symptomatic … years apart . 9 With Covid-19, reinfections are common and each carries a risk of illness, hospitalisation, death, and …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: Perspectives from young people

    … supported by health researchers, we know little about how young people – those targeted by the SFG policy – perceive it. In … by removing its status as a “rite of passage”. 6 For many decades, tobacco companies framed smoking as a symbol of …
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  • What does recent biomarker literature say about the likely harm from e-cigarettes?

    … with vaping is very dynamic (new products, changing ways people vape) and there is no evidence yet about long-term … of e-cigarette products in the international market. How vapers actually use these products is also a likely … longer inhalations than do smokers (eg, 1-4). Further, many models of vaporisers have adjustable features such as …
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  • Why do so many fear the bicycle?

    … bike is shunted, literally, to the side of the road), and how this might be changed.   “It is too dangerous” is the … ride, a game of rugby, half a day on the snow) There are many assumptions and approximations in these results, so they … than either cars or bikes (Shaw et al 2016), yet few people are put off walking by fear of traffic crash injury. …
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  • Why a “mouth and nose” lockdown with masks might help avoid a “full body” lockdown at home

    … The concepts of an Alert Level system, household “bubbles”, and social … outbreak at a choir in Seattle involved 52 out of 61 people being infected from a single case [1]. Air currents … animated spaces…Wherever and whenever people are up in each other’s faces, laughing, shouting, cheering, sobbing, …
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  • Regulator failure on nitrate in drinking water dumps escalating costs on those downstream

    … Summary Many communities across Canterbury are facing increasingly … to know, but appears not to be publicly available, is how this increase in dairy cattle is distributed between … District Council schemes servicing approximately 600 people breached the MAV, it was reported a denitrification …
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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 … of modelling is that we can include uncertainty about many key inputs. That is why when we consider all the major … … Vaping very likely to be improving health in NZ – but how does this compare with other options? …
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  • Why the New Zealand Government should reconsider abandoning denicotinised cigarettes

    … risks seeing around 5000 New Zealanders continue to die every year from smoking and a persistence of associated … among adolescents. 3   Extensive data from trials with people who smoke provided with VLNCs shows they smoke fewer … 11 Modeling studies suggest denicotinisation would save many life years and avert numerous smoking related deaths. …
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  • Covid-19: A planetary disease

    … market (estimated at around US $23 billion) after drugs, people, and arms smuggling, and hence a reason for the decline of many endangered species. Many of these factors are … Preventing the next pandemic – Zoonotic diseases and how to break the chain of transmission) This blog is a much …
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