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  • Making tobacco less available is both necessary and feasible – New NZ study

    … And how should countries pursuing a smokefree goal, such as NZ , address this situation? Tobacco’s wide availability … meaning those retailers can continue selling tobacco as long as they stay in business. Our just published [1] research …
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  • The case for tobacco supply restrictions

    … illustrate how highly visible in-store stimuli such as shelf-talkers, end of aisle displays, and sampling booths … logos on its website, quickly decried the research as anti-tobacco, as though this charge somehow invalidated … (more than 3 on a scale where complete opposition was -5 and complete support was +5).  Although daily smokers …
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  • Daily nicotine use increases among youth in Aotearoa NZ: The 2021 Snapshot Y10 Survey

    … among rangatahi Māori daily smoking declined from 5.8% in 2019 (5.2% in 2018) to 3.4% in 2021, though … data on regular smoking or regular vaping (“regular” as defined by the Snapshot survey means smoking or vaping at least once a month, as opposed to daily use). These details are very important …
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  • A century of health inequalities in NZ – new data

    … suggesting life span differences by occupational class as measured 100 years ago. We find strong differences in life … high- and low-income groups have been estimated at 6.5 years for males and 4.7 years for females in 2001 [2]. The … limitations with studying both these historical cohorts (as we discuss in detail in our published study ). Hence, …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Two Injury Prevention Strategies to Reduce Pressure on the Health System

    … underestimate the overall health and social benefits to NZ as it only considered motor vehicle injuries and not the many … diseases related to alcohol (including acute impacts such as alcohol poisoning). More generally there is overwhelming … compromised vigilance, with impairments found at BACs as low as 0.03%”. Such research findings are consistent with …
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  • Tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food - where the parties stand: Election 2023

    … to reduce the prevalence and inequities in smoking, as well as catch-up legislation to try to halt the explosion of … for the free school lunch programme to be made universal, as it is in many other countries. Public health …
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  • 6 teaspoons of sugar a day helps the diseases stay down, in a most challenging way

    … to the “sugar wars” that we do not cover here, such as sugar industry lobbying of politicians  that the UK press … energy intake a day, but have gone further to state that 5% would be better still. 5% is about 6 teaspoons per day. … 10% let alone 5% of total energy intake a day from sugar. As is widely known, sugar causes tooth decay and this …
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  • Public health response to report on potential risk of nitrate from drinking water

    … evidence observing nitrate in drinking water as a risk factor for colorectal cancer. In separate public … studies only observed associations at much higher levels [5-8], while one cohort observed an inverse relationship, … from drinking water that is consumed with any meal or as another beverage [eg, coffee] poses zero risk to human …
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  • World moving forward on the smokefree generation - Aotearoa NZ goes backwards

    … free generation), differs from age restrictions, such as the R18 law currently in place in NZ, which prohibit sale … after a certain age, potentially positioning smoking as a “rite of passage” to adulthood (for more information, … to a negligible 0.004% (range 0.002% to 0.01%) by 2045. 5 6 Using Stats NZ population projections (50% median value), …
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  • NZ falling behind on international rules to protect kids from food marketing

    … marketing which actively targets and pursues children as present and future consumers of products for profit. These … (only those aged under 13 years) 4 , are ineffective 5  , rarely upheld 6 , ambiguously worded and poorly enforced 5 . As a result of this laissez faire policy environment children …
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