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  • What does the EY Tobacco Excise Tax Evaluation Report mean for reaching the Smokefree 2025 Goal?

    … Māori and Pacific smokers and their whanāu, and increasing cigarette-related robberies from dairies. The Minister was … strong social justice and equity case for hypothecation i.e. since tobacco excise taxes can impose a financial burden … goal. There is growing consensus based on survey data (e.g. from the NZ Health Survey ) and modelling studies [8, 9] …
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  • How the tobacco industry targets young people to achieve a new generation of smokers

    … strategy had increased Camel’s share of the children’s cigarette market segment from 0.5% to 32.8% (estimated sales … While electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), such as e-cigarettes and vapes, could help smokers who have not been … influenced young people, exposure to cartoon characters on e-liquid packaging is associated with susceptibility to …
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  • Media release: Call for transparency from the Government on tobacco industry influence and connections

    … the Public Health Communication Centre , Professor Janet Hoek and co-authors from the University of Otago have … vested interests of the tobacco industry,” says Professor Hoek. New Zealand has ratified the World Health … making from tobacco industry influences,” says Professor Hoek. “It also requires governments to interact with tobacco …
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  • Proposals to reduce youth vaping: Important steps but a more comprehensive approach needed

    … by a “cigalike” product, a visual analogue of a smoked cigarette) 6  to a much broader market, including people who … design, the development of nicotine salts has enabled e-liquids to deliver higher nicotine concentrations without … University of Otago, Wellington. Contact author: Janet Hoek ( janet.hoek@otago.ac.nz ). This post was originally …
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  • Possible strategic approaches to achieve the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

    … of existing ‘mainstream’ best practice tobacco control e.g., enhanced mass media, extensions to smokefree policies, … tobacco control interventions from around the world e.g., plain packaging, banning additives and a minimum retail … ongoing current tobacco tax increases). We assumed that e-cigarette regulations currently in NZ will be hard to change …
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  • Oral nicotine products: Expanding the nicotine marketplace

    … have diversified their nicotine products to include e-cigarettes (ECs) heated tobacco products (e.g., IQOS) and, … is absorbed via oral mucosa rather than by inhalation of cigarette smoke or EC aerosol. Yet, although we lack robust … use among young people. Authors details  Prof Janet Hoek , Co-Director of ASPIRE Aotearoa Research Centre, and …
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  • Media release: Why the Smokefree legislation must stay - Laying out the evidence:

    … is evidence-based, removing it is not , Professor Janet Hoek and co-authors from the Universities of Otago and … agenda that will only benefit tobacco companies. Professor Hoek says NZ's world leading legislation has a strong … legislation proposes exactly this process.” Professor Hoek says using the tobacco industry’s tired and specious …
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  • Daily nicotine use increases among youth in Aotearoa NZ: The 2021 Snapshot Y10 Survey

    … In 2018, 1.8% of survey respondents reported using an e-cigarette on a daily basis; that proportion had risen to 3.1% … products and be at risk of vaping uptake. * Authors: Hoek, Ball, Robertson, Gendall, Wilson, Edwards and Waa are …
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  • The Two-Faced Tobacco Industry: Transformation and Cigarillos

    … Leaf”, has led many to ask how launching a cheaper cigarette-like product fits with PMI’s vision of a smoke-free … Leaf in June this year exploited this loophole. Unlike the cigarette variants within PMI’s lowest-priced Chesterfield brand (e.g., Chesterfield Red), Chesterfield Leaf is classified as a …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: A core measure in New Zealand’s endgame strategy

    … NZ modelling suggests that the very low nicotine cigarette (VLNC) policy, which will make smoked tobacco … as US jurisdictions introducing T21 policies (i.e., that measures restricting tobacco sales to people aged 21 … minimise the chance it will ever increase. *Authors: Janet Hoek, Jude Ball, Richard Edwards, Andrew Waa and Lani Teddy …
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