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  • Oral nicotine products: Expanding the nicotine marketplace

    … Summary Faced with declining use of their smoked tobacco products, tobacco companies have … be imported for personal use. In this Briefing, we examine how ONP marketing in Aotearoa has targeted young people, despite tobacco companies’ claim these products …
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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 …   Dr Shane Reti, Minister of Health (overall) Asked how he knew there would be an increase in ram raids as a … those dairy owners as part of their revenue - all of those people who are law-abiding and don't break any other rules - …
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  • Lime E-Scooters – Avoiding a collision course with public health?

    … the public health implications of Lime e-scooters, review how policy makers could maximise the potentially desirable … suggests its e-scooters will reduce traffic congestion as people will switch from driving cars or motorcycles and … people not to block footpaths when parking their scooter , many riders take no heed of this request. Evidence of …
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  • Removing the nicotine from tobacco: The key component of the current Smokefree Bill

    … from randomised controlled trials (RCTs), show that people who smoke and are provided with denicotinised … felt less addicted and more in control of their smoking. Many thought that if only denicotinised cigarettes were … The table summarises their key points and proposes how the policy could be operationalised in NZ. Table: …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could making tobacco products available only through community pharmacies help us get there?

    … In this blog we discuss the arguments for and against one of the proposals included in the Smokefree 2025 Action Plan … pharmacies will increase smoking cessation support to people who smoke. It may also maximise the reduction in … and pharmacies would be well-placed to provide support to people who smoke if these were the only settings where …
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  • “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a new Action Plan to achieve our smokefree goal

    … to quit, discouraging children and young people from initiating smoking, and encouraging smokers who … Māori (11). An important consideration for the choice of many of the measures included in the Action Plan was that … of e-cigarettes in achieving Smokefree Aotearoa 2025, and how the measures in the plan can facilitate maximising their …
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  • Vaccination is often cost-effective but not (currently) HPV vaccination for boys in NZ

    … good use of limited health sector resources.   Similar to many developed countries, routine vaccination against human … HPV-related disease, including transplant recipients and people who are HIV positive . It is probably worth … reported to be cost-saving), USA , Canada , and Iceland . How cost-effective is the fully-subsidised annual influenza …
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  • Water infrastructure failures from Cyclone Gabrielle show low resilience to climate change

    … (NZ) in February this year, it displaced thousands of people as flooding caused landslides, ripped through homes, … Cyclone Gabrielle has provided additional lessons on how the country has neglected building resiliency into its … disposal to New Zealanders proved not to be resilient in many regions hit by Cyclone Gabrielle. Around half of those …
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  • How best to classify and count NZ’s border control failures in the COVID-19 pandemic?

    … This figure is likely to be a large underestimate as many of those who test positive at day 12 of their stay in … potential for recently arrived (and potentially infectious people) to infect those who are about to leave MIQ … Otago, for very helpful comments on a draft of this blog … How best to classify and count NZ’s border control failures …
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  • Monkeypox has arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand: what is the level of risk and how do we manage it?

    … The global outbreak of monkeypox has for the first time caused widespread … 20,22 . Level of uncertainty : This criterion relates to how well-characterised and stable the threat is assessed to … the community, shown by a lack of known exposure source in many confirmed cases 18 . Several factors including the long …
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