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  • Retailing of vaping products – New NZ Research

    … does not propose restricting the sale of ENDS, HTPs, or associated vaping items such as e-liquids, to specialist vape … 6 Retailers could play a helpful role in determining what population health gains are realised, but only if they have a sound knowledge of the …
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  • Bioethicists, scientists and politicians; decision-making in a pandemic

    … ethics. The norm in bioethical discussion is to debate what is normatively the right thing to do. This document … other hand their job as an opposition was to point out the problems that they saw; that is the job of politicians. I am … health perspective it is a good idea, other considerations are maintaining business for some hotels in the absence of …
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  • Emphasis on indigenous forests in ETS would benefit public health

    … to human health from climate change and then outline the problems for public health from landscapes dominated by … direct and indirect impacts. Frequently such impacts are experienced most severely by communities that are least … is also consistent with international research. 20 What's new in this Briefing Outlines problems for public …
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  • Social Marketing for Smokefree Aotearoa 2025: Reminding, Reinforcing, and Changing Social Norms

    … over time and can reframe an industry or behaviour so that what was once accepted behaviour moves outside normal social … respect to campaign reach, frequency and duration, if they are to have a strong impact. 21 22 They must also reflect the … to prompt purchase behaviours could also address social problems. 24 Yet, despite the success of commercial …
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  • Government struggling with evidence: HTPs, addiction levels, and Smokefree 2025

    … assertions that the population of people who still smoke are more 'hardened' (i.e., more addicted). It is time for the … questioned the logic and evidence for “hardening”, 2-4 with a recent systematic review concluding that smoking is … in Aotearoa is “softening” rather than “hardening”.   What impact will halving the excise tax on HTPs have? The …
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  • Red meat & processed meat: Summarising the Public Health isues

    … prostate cancer. Figure: IARC Carcinogen Classifications What is the significance of this finding? IARC has … (see Figure), but how strongly is processed meat actually associated with cancer? Sir David Spiegelhalter, a risk … (unpublished data). So these “lifetime bacon-eaters” are not too different from your average New Zealander. A …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could taking the nicotine out of smoked tobacco products help us get there?

    … A policy requiring that all smoked tobacco products are virtually nicotine free is one of the key proposals … The APDD also proposes mandating VLNCs, so that these are the only smoked tobacco products available for sale in … site . 1 Methods Using an Excel spreadsheet populated with NZ Health Survey smoking/vaping prevalence data, we …
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  • When the first barrier fails: Strengthening protection for drinking water sources

    … reforms were made but the Waimate breach reveals there are still weaknesses in responsibility and accountability for … we've obviously been exposed to this getting towards 50. What's the risk of having had an entire pregnancy, … 17  ECan has said they will not contribute to any costs associated with denitrification as they are not responsible …
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  • Public health priorities in this election year

    … linked by a need for decision-makers to act.  These are all areas where we as a society have a choice about the … policies, we are world leaders. This illustrates what can be achieved by the wonderful fusion of public health … thinking leads to the neglect of multiple public health problems, particularly long-term disease prevention and …
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  • Why don’t we live as long and healthily as we could: social values and decision making

    … Public Health Expert Blog. This blog is going to consider what we could do, and what we probably should not do, to … we live in a society with social values that are not just about maximization of longevity and health at … in cancer, and high expenditure at end of life is common in all countries.  Form a hard-nose technocratic …
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