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  • Possible strategic approaches to achieve the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

    … potential roles of interventions such as higher regular tobacco tax increases in achieving the NZ Government’s … Goal. As best we can model, 10% per annum increases in tobacco tax alone will not be able to achieve the 2025 Goal. … to achieve the 2025 Goal which is ongoing increases in tobacco taxes, intensification of existing evidence-based …
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  • The Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty and tobacco: no cause to celebrate

    … In this blog we ask what the tobacco ‘carve out’ from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) … settlement (ISDS), the TPP agreement as a whole applies to tobacco, and breaches of the TPP might, in principle, be alleged in relation to tobacco. The TPP provides mechanisms to pursue complaints for …
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  • Removing the nicotine from tobacco: The key component of the current Smokefree Bill

    … Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Bill includes three key policy measures … 2025 Action Plan: denicotinisation of cigarettes and tobacco, large reductions in outlets selling tobacco, and the introduction of a Smokefree Generation …
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  • “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a new Action Plan to achieve our smokefree goal

    … new Action Plan was launched by one of New Zealand’s great tobacco control champions – Dame Tariana Turia – at … measures. Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 is a world-leading tobacco-control goal with origins in the vision of Māori leaders for Tupeka Kore (tobacco free) Aotearoa. A team led by researchers from ASPIRE …
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  • Will regular tobacco tax increases get NZ to the tobacco endgame?

    … study we just published in the international journal Tobacco Control , we examined the potential role of increasing tobacco tax for achieving an end to the tobacco epidemic in NZ. The bottom line is that tax rises …
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  • Would reducing the number of tobacco retail outlets achieve the Smokefree 2025 goal?

    …   Figure 1. Map of current tobacco retailers in New Zealand (n=6000) How can we achieve … 2025 goal of a smokefree nation? The best approach to this tobacco endgame, as it is often called, is unclear. Options include ongoing tobacco tax rises, a sinking lid on tobacco imports, …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa Action Plan: Why this could eliminate smoking disparities for Māori

    … a significant step forward in how we think about tobacco control 1 . The Plan specifically references … represent the views of Māori in general. Business as usual tobacco control measures not enough to address smoking disparities. Traditional, business as usual (BAU), tobacco control measures have had a strong emphasis on …
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  • Smoking denormalization and tobacco endgames

    … seen inequities persist and led some governments to adopt tobacco endgame strategies that rapidly reduce smoking … will bring profound health benefits but face opposition. Tobacco companies have simultaneously opposed core endgame … social acceptability, and consider challenges that tobacco endgame strategists will need to address. Social …
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  • Targeting a new generation – time for a greater focus on smoking uptake prevention?

    … The theme of this year’s World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is how the tobacco industry continues to target young people and recruit … young people to join the fight for them to become a tobacco-free generation. So how could this year’s WNTD theme …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: A core measure in New Zealand’s endgame strategy

    … Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Bill outlines three crucial measures: … large reductions in the number of outlets selling tobacco, and the introduction of a Smokefree Generation (SFG) … and examine arguments raised against this measure.   Tobacco endgame strategies aim to achieve large reductions in …
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