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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 … Aotearoa equitably and sustainably. The importance of supporting smoking cessation Discussions about how to … substantial harms caused by smoking, represents a massive failure of successive governments. Māori experience a …
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  • An upgraded Alert Level 2 is urgently needed to address the Delta Variant threat

    … and the system must be updated to address the threat of the highly transmissible Delta variant and future … (Auckland currently at Alert Level 4, with the rest of the country at Alert Level 3) to eliminate community … the highest risk indoor environments closed while the risk of virus circulation is elevated.   Photo by  Anna Tarazevich …
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  • Making tobacco less available is both necessary and feasible – New NZ study

    … In our recently published work, we studied the impact of the NZ Government preventing new retail outlets from … outcome would be a 50% decrease in the total number of tobacco retail outlets by 2032. This blog puts these results into the context of tobacco control options for NZ. Across the globe we’re …
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  • Not all upcycled food is created equal: What is sustainable?

    … socially, and economically sustainable use of food that would otherwise be wasted. Our review of existing research examines whether upcycling food supports these three pillars of sustainability and, if so, how. While research is still …
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  • Public Health at the Movies: A Selection of 35 Top Movies

    … We have assembled a collection of 35 high quality movies as part of public health teaching for medical students. In this blog post we detail the movies and reflect on some of the aspects that make them both educational and …
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  • Smart party pill law makes tobacco & alcohol regulation look pathetic

    … that tobacco – and for that matter alcohol – with orders of magnitude more harm gets the wet bus ticket regulatory … sorted out by lunch time. Party pills – sales now subject of stringent regulation – in contrast to tobacco and alcohol … Psychoactive Substances Act, which introduces regulation of ‘party pills’, came into force on August 1 st 2013 with …
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  • Tackling child poverty: will the nation’s political leaders honour Richie Poulton’s legacy?

    … achievements, significant findings, and policy relevance of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study … has highlighted the enduring and often profound impact of individuals’ early life experiences and environment on … income). It points to the vital need to achieve low rates of childhood poverty. Although recent governments in Aotearoa …
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  • The hardening hypothesis for smoking – but does the evidence point to “softening” in NZ?

    … among those quitting. If true it would support the views of the people who say to me with wearying regularity when I … and hence the hypothesis can be tested. The population of smokers could become: (i) more highly addicted (eg, … – for example, due to lack of a Government action plan and failure to progress key interventions (19), –  the evidence …
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  • The case for banning cigarette filters

    … product changes that sustain the appeal and addictiveness of smoked tobacco products. How did filters become an integral component of cigarettes? Cigarettes initially had no filters. … to prevent sore throats” (see Figure below). As the harms of smoking became well-established, 1 2 filters’ role as a …
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  • Transport, carbon emission reduction and health- the possibility of a virtuous circle?

    … recently published a systematic review “Health Co-Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation Policies in the Transport Sector … ”. The transport sector globally generates about 23% of carbon emissions (about 16% of gross emissions in New Zealand ). This is largely …
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