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  • New Vaping Bill: Some important progress but critical gaps remain

    … help reduce young people’s exposure to vaping products and remove their product of choice: inexpensive single-use … youth was 17.3%, nearly twice as high as estimates from England (9.7%), and almost three times as high Canadian … Measures to restrict the visibility of vaping products from outside specialist vape retailers and online, and end …
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  • Monitoring CO2 indoors for improving ventilation as a Covid-19 control tool

    … of crowded indoor spaces”. Airborne transmission differs from the traditional view that respiratory viruses either … ranges of hand-held or portable monitors are available from numerous suppliers, typically costing $100 to $500 each. … and other combustion sources, seasonal variation in uptake from vegetation and other fluctuations due to the weather. CO …
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  • Minimum pricing of alcohol: what does the evidence say?

    … As a strategy to reduce harm from alcohol, there is growing interest internationally … elasticities, as we have blogged about previously for food ). Importantly, they also estimated price elasticities … in the Lancet strongly suggests health benefits will arise from minimum pricing of alcohol, especially for low income …
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  • Progress towards a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan: Congratulations to the Government

    … approach informed by sound logic and research findings from Aotearoa and internationally. If adopted and implemented … retail outlets to around 5% of the current number (i.e., from around 6000 to 300). Precedents for mandating marked … trying smoking as they would not expect to get a hit from nicotine. It should also stop the progression to …
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  • Cycling and walking in six NZ cities: Where are we at?

    … healthy the populations of each city are. Main findings from the new study Walking is the most common form of active … the proportion of trips taken using this mode ranges from 12-27% of journeys, depending on the city. Cities with … of physical activity and lower levels of harm to health from inactivity-related conditions, such as high blood …
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  • The race to be the first place in Aotearoa to be smokefree

    … A major avenue of hope for a smokefree Aotearoa comes from the enthusiastic efforts by local coalitions of local … further curtailed with the changeover of the Quitline from the Quit Group to Homecare Medical. Current … on space, what follows are some beacons of hope from around New Zealand. Northland Northland is a model for …
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  • Thoughts on NZ Adopting an Aussie Community Health Programme … and Forthcoming Nutrition Policy Events

    … a distancing policy to shield a government and the state from its responsibilities (e.g. on welfare benefits), … that diverts attention and excuses the central government from addressing the really big policy levers at a … national-level that probably matter most, e.g. regulating food marketing, proper nutrient labelling of food, and using …
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  • Media release: International experts say abandoning denicotinised cigarettes will cost lives

    … New Zealand will cost lives. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre, Professor Eric Donny from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina and Professor Dorothy Hatsukami from the University of Minnesota lay out the public health …
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  • National capacity needed to monitor misinformation to protect public health and social cohesion

    … risk such as measles epidemics and infant deaths from whooping cough. 5, 6 The recent declines in vaccination … health sector is better equipped to respond to concerns from the public, and ensure accurate, and accessible … almost certainly require ongoing resourcing, including from government.  While the DPMC Chief Executive agreed in …
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  • New Zealand can lead the world in tobacco control: Plain packaging 2.0

    … this proportionate and evidence-based policy, and benefit from the declines in smoking prevalence to which plain packaging has contributed. Studies from New Zealand have shown how on-pack tobacco-brand imagery … of brands. Plain packaging represents an opportunity to remove descriptors completely or, at the very least, to …
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