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  • Optimising the effects of plain packaging for tobacco – making Quitline information more salient

    … Given plain packaging of tobacco products will likely increase the tension many … to try and quit, could increase the number and success of quit attempts. This blog post details a just published … packaging regulations improve the current presentation of Quitline information and provide smokers with support to …
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  • Lessons From history: Helping New Zealand prepare for future influenza pandemics

    … in the last 100 years that have reached New Zealand. Of these, the 1918 one was by far the most severe – in fact … history with over 8500 deaths (almost one percent of the population at the time). The most recent influenza … pandemics could even pose existential risks to the future of human civilisation (pandemics are included in this list of …
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  • Contradictions surround Government’s move to slash tax on heated tobacco products

    … had advocated for this change; however, the Ministry of Health had advised Minister Costello that there was no … tobacco products. The tobacco industry has a long history of malign practice. Court judgments have found tobacco … the excise tax HTPs attract. The Minister’s on-going failure to explain this influential document’s provenance or …
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  • The case for tobacco supply restrictions

    … It is now time to reduce the number and density of retail outlets selling tobacco.  Retail supply restrictions are both a logical component of policies that will achieve a tobacco-free New Zealand by 2025, and what the majority of consumers want. Marketing is predicated on largely …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Simple transport system changes could quickly relieve the crisis in our hospitals

    … use and speed limit reductions.   This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective … and injuries (around 14000 a year), hospitalisations for heart conditions (2000 a year just from NO 2 air pollution , … of it is reversible in the short-term (e.g. depressive symptoms and physical activity, air pollution health impacts …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: A core measure in New Zealand’s endgame strategy

    … low nicotine cigarettes, large reductions in the number of outlets selling tobacco, and the introduction of a Smokefree Generation (SFG) policy. In this blog, we … that sustain these reductions by preventing recruitment of ‘replacement smokers’, on whom tobacco companies’ …
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  • Kiwi public health doc reporting back from Victoria (Australia): “Do quarantine well!”

    … a letter home. I have now been full-time at the University of Melbourne since 2019. Before that, I was 20 years at the University of Otago, Wellington. Indeed, I set up this very Public … – with all the attendant short-term pain, risk of failure, etc, but also the long-term possibility of a more …
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  • Perspective: Who is responsible for stopping NZ’s obesity epidemic?

    … for the ‘individual-responsibility’ explanation and (lack of) solution to the obesity epidemic. She then points to the … current New Zealand Government is pragmatism. Surely the failure of a ‘personal responsibility’ approach to obesity … persuade a Government with its citizens’ best interests at heart (and future health budgets) to change tack? Most of the …
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  • Will regular tobacco tax increases get NZ to the tobacco endgame?

    … journal Tobacco Control , we examined the potential role of increasing tobacco tax for achieving an end to the tobacco … is to be achieved by 2025. In this blog we discuss some of the modelling results and also the other policy options … evidence is that increasing tobacco tax is one of the most important single tobacco control measures. Its …
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  • Three Waters reforms are needed to protect public health and ensure changes are economically sustainable and efficient

    … discussion on the critical need to reform the management of drinking water resources which is currently: 1) … water-related campylobacteriosis outbreak made much of an entire town sick (~8,000 people), with 58 … and four deaths. 1,2 The outbreak was an outcome of systemic flaws in Aotearoa New Zealand’s (A-NZ) regulatory …
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