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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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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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Tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food - where the parties stand: Election 2023
… of results is shown in the table below. Tobacco and vaping The current Labour Government, under Health Minister … as catch-up legislation to try to halt the explosion of vaping outlets and rapid rise in youth vaping. Tobacco and vaping policies received the broadest …
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Parliamentary voting for smokefree over two decades: Implications for future progress
… smokefree policies, three on tobacco taxation and one on vaping policies (see Appendix ). The final two were the 2022 … which introduced policies on smoked tobacco products and vaping and the 2024 repeal of key smokefree aspects of the … National also supported the Labour-led Government’s 2020 vaping regulation and smokefree cars bills. However, most of …
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Smokefree Aotearoa – world-leading developments with profound public health implications
… New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) data shows Increasing vaping prevalence since 2015, suggesting that growing numbers of people who smoke are vaping as an alternative to smoking. This may have … smoking prevalence, particularly since 2019/20. However, vaping among young people, including adolescents, has greatly …
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A Smokefree Aotearoa – could taking the nicotine out of smoked tobacco products help us get there?
… Excel spreadsheet populated with NZ Health Survey smoking/vaping prevalence data, we modelled trends to 2025 in a … in 2022 and was implemented from 1 March 2023 Smoking and vaping prevalence trends (BAU) Recent average rates of … smoking prevalence (2011/12 to 2019/2020) and increase in vaping prevalence (2018/19 to 2019/2020) for all groups …
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What does the 2019/20 NZ Health Survey tell us about progress towards a Smokefree Aotearoa?
… marked disparities in smoking. E-cigarette use and vaping has increased over the last three to four years, … we provided an analysis of 10 key points about smoking and vaping from the 2018-19 NZ Health Survey (NZHS). Here we … There were substantial increases in all measures of ECs/vaping use in the overall population between 2015/16 and …
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News: Fears NZ on track to fall well short of Smokefree 2025 goal
… ZB on the smoking prevalence data and the latest on the vaping stats as laid out in the Briefing Vaping prevalence and trends: Important findings from 2023-24 NZ Health Survey . The data show vaping prevalence is particularly high among younger age …
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Oral tobacco and nicotine products: Quitting aid or teen addiction risk?
… given lower-harm nicotine replacement therapy and vaping products are already widely available as alternatives … They may pose fewer physical harms than heat-not-burn and vaping products, since they do not involve inhaling toxicants … through Stop Smoking services for many years. Nicotine vaping products are also widely available at low cost, with …
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