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

    … Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Bill (‘the Bill’) which will regulate vaping products and alternative nicotine delivery systems. In … Background The Ministry of Health’s approach to regulating vaping and alternative nicotine products (which we refer to …
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  • Smoke, heat or vapour? Ideas for risk-proportionate regulation to make World Smokefree Day irrelevant by 2025

    … for the achieving Smokefree Aotearoa 2025. Tobacco and vaping products such as e-cigarettes vary greatly in their … ‘risk-proportionate’ regulation for tobacco and vaping products. This blog discusses public health … as clarifying the appropriate regulatory approaches to vaping products, we see an overwhelming need for much …
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  • Covid-19 vaccines still protect us: How do we get the best out of them?

    … in NZ, weekly total, from January 2021 to July 2024.    Covid vaccines continue to protect against … KP.3 is replacing JN.1, which was dominant from January 2024 (Figure 2).  Figure 2. Covid-19 variants and subvariants … from wastewater specimens by week, July 2023 to July 2024   Source: ESR Wastewater testing dashboard . The current …
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  • Will liberalising nicotine availability increase quitting?

    … the complex practices smokers must adopt when commencing vaping. We suggest limiting supply of nicotine e-cigarettes … This decision reflects general scientific agreement that vaping (use of e-cigarettes and vaporisers to obtain … when smokers make a full transition from smoking to vaping (1). It also recognises that nicotine e-liquid is …
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  • Public health and Budget 2024

    … Summary Budget 2024 emphasises tax cuts, funded by spending reductions and … as the budget constraints complicate their efforts. Budget 2024 was very much about tax cuts (as promised in the 2023 … rather it is woven through the broader whole.  Budget 2024: less revenue, less spending The centre-piece of Budget …
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  • Oral tobacco and nicotine products: Quitting aid or teen addiction risk?

    … products, including NZ-specific promotion since early 2024. Deregulation of these products has uncertain benefits … given lower-harm nicotine replacement therapy and vaping products are already widely available as alternatives … including ZYN promotions. In addition, since January 2024, Zyn has targeted NZ youth directly via ZYN NZ social …
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  • Media release: Vaping crackdown falls short: Gaps in new bill leave youth at risk

    … The coalition Government is moving to reduce youth vaping with a proposed bill that introduces measures to ban … say if the Government wants to “crackdown” on youth vaping, it must take a more comprehensive approach, including … and promotions such as buy-one-get-one-free could make vaping products less affordable for young people, while still …
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  • Fast-track Bill puts NZ on wrong track, threatening public health

    … are open through Parliament’s website until 19 April 2024.   Faster, but in what direction? The Coalition … Select Committee and submissions are open until 19 April 2024. Submissions can be made on the bill here .     Author … Bill made in Parliament or reported by media from 7 March 2024 (the day the Bill was presented to Parliament) to 19 …
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  • What does recent biomarker literature say about the likely harm from e-cigarettes?

    … relative to tobacco smokers. Yet as the situation with vaping is very dynamic (new products, changing ways people … evidence was considered it largely focused on studies of vaping aerosol and e-liquid composition with relatively few … study by Carnevale et al (7)) suggests that the effect of vaping on four other inflammatory markers of likely relevance …
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  • New e-liquid flavour restrictions: Potential impacts on young people and people who smoke

    … Zealand’s Smoke-free Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Act 2020 will restrict the e-liquid … on people who smoke and those who neither smoke nor use vaping products. In May 2018, the District Court ruled that … marketing of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS or vaping products), which quickly became pervasive. Rather than …
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