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  • Retailing of vaping products – New NZ Research

    … of the public health community hold divergent views on how access to vaping products or electronic nicotine delivery … switching from smoking to vaping may be more complex than people expect. Participants in our earlier studies reported … cases, reported providing information that was incorrect. Many participants saw their role as strictly commercial, …
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  • Increasing speed limits defies the science - more deaths and pollution expected

    … local authorities have reduced urban speed limits across many of our cities, and expressed strong support for … and wellbeing?  Deaths and serious injuries   In 2023, 341 people died in road crashes in NZ . In around a third of … in urban areas. 14   There are also questions about how travel time savings are used. Any benefits are based on …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could taking the nicotine out of smoked tobacco products help us get there?

    … smoked tobacco products are virtually nicotine free is one of the key proposals included in the Smokefree 2025 Action … 2025 Impact of VLNC policy on quitting From 2023, 33% of people who smoke would quit each year and the remainder would continue to smoke using …
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  • Front-of-pack nutrition labels improve understanding but don’t improve healthy food choices; Starlight Trial just published

    … from our HRC-funded DIET Programme based at the University of Auckland. This is important evidence for policy. We had … Panel label, although they appear useful for a subgroup of people who use labels a lot. Figure 2: Forest plot of … study results. Our study did not, and could not, assess how the food industry reformulates food in response to …
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  • Will liberalising nicotine availability increase quitting?

    … e-cigarette market set out a robust process for helping people who smoke to switch to e-cigarettes? In this blog, we … also exist. While precise definitions of dual use vary, many smokers appear to continue smoking after having started … and rewarding experiences may be crucial in determining how easily smokers find they can replace smoking with vaping. …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Stemming the tide of cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … cases were diagnosed in 2020 worldwide , and 10 million people died of cancer.  Recent projections indicate that … by 2035.  And then there is the considerable issue of how these cancers are distributed within the population: in … Vaccination and test-to-treat programmes exist for many types of these infectious disease: for example, most …
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  • The Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty and tobacco: no cause to celebrate

    … means for public health. Despite the partial exemption of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), the TPP … chapters with which state signatories must comply; hence many possible breaches of those obligations agents which may … tobacco industry over tobacco control measures. No matter how ill-founded industry legal arguments may be, they may …
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  • Introducing an Online Data Explorer Tool: 30 years of NZ mortality and cancer data

    … for European/Pakeha New Zealanders (1). Also four times as many Māori women die of lung cancer than their … motivation for developing the Data Explorer and outline how some of our key research findings can be identified using … are sizeable. Little decline in mortality for young people with no qualifications So far, each of the selections …
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  • The Smokefree 2025 goal is in danger of receding – will the Ministry of Health’s ‘realignment’ get it back on track?

    … we argue more fundamental change is required and outline how the Government could do more and the priority actions … national policy, and thus depend on Government leadership. Many of these measures were recommended in the 2010 Māori … Such work is particularly important, given evidence many people misunderstand the goal (9). We hope the realignment …
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  • Reducing cardiovascular disease deaths from overweight & obesity: Fortunately there are several options

    … we look at a recent combined analysis of 97 studies on how much of the overweight/obesity association with … access to the health system. The above study – along with many others – clearly demonstrates the CVD burden of … of 97 studies, Flegal and colleagues found that people with a BMI of 25-<30 had a mortality hazard ratio of …
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