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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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  • What can we learn from Healthy Housing Initiatives? New evidence from the Wellington Well Homes scheme

    … know that poor housing conditions result in ill health for many New Zealanders, and we know which interventions are … can promote good health.  New Zealand research has shown how low indoor temperatures and mould impair children’s lung … reported really dire conditions in some cases – entering people’s homes, they could see grass through cracks in the …
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  • Should smokefree indoor areas = vapefree areas?

    … legally in NZ. This consultation raises questions about how the wider uptake of e-cigarette use (known as “vaping”) … for example, indoor area vaping bans already exist in many places within the USA (eg, (1)), with most overlapping … high compliance needs to be readily understandable to people who vape and those around them. Exemptions that allow …
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  • The end game should not be just Smokefree 2025 but also Vapefree

    … Government is obliged to protect the health and wellbeing of Māori. It is further obligated under both the United … Vapes are glamourised in images that feature young people and present vaping in fashionable or on-trend … likely to use e-cigarettes daily. It is estimated that as many as 1 in 4 first time tobacco smokers display the early …
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  • Mounting complexities in the dietary salt & health relationship

    … (13-16)) but the last two of these cited studies included people with established cardiovascular disease (so reverse … Nevertheless, if there are multiple confounders on many separate “backdoor paths” (epidemiological jargon for … such a relationship (but, again, we have difficulty seeing how this might result in a “U-shaped” relationship). Unlike …
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