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  • Oral nicotine products: Expanding the nicotine marketplace

    … and aspirations, and positioned tobacco brands as familiar and reliable responses to these. As brand affiliations evolved, marketers embedded brands into … to continue denying the harms their products cause; 5,6 they responded with a new narrative that claimed …
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  • Ready or not? Pandemic preparedness index and implications for NZ

    … category is not included in other preparedness tools such as the WHO’s Joint External Evaluation. Aotearoa New Zealand … reduce its vulnerability to biothreats by using tools such as the GHS Index, as well as learning from international … mortality for 183 countries, against GHS Index scores. 5 Importantly, this analysis used data accounting for excess …
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  • Potential impact of an Omicron outbreak: A look at the IHME modelling for NZ

    … be considered by NZ policy-makers. But other factors, such as the social and economic disruption from such an Omicron … ). They describe their model as being “a hybrid model that combines both a statistical … Covid-19 patients). It then moves to “moderate stress” (5-9% occupancy) in March and then moves to “low stress” (<5% …
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  • Reducing nicotine in smoked tobacco products: A pivotal feature of the Smokefree Aotearoa proposals

    … profound impact on smoking prevalence and, if implemented as part of a comprehensive plan, gives a realistic prospect … recommended reducing the additives and nicotine in tobacco as one of the measures to help achieve the proposed Smokefree … disastrous health consequences these impose on most users. 5 6 These attributes make it difficult for people who smoke …
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  • Where do the parties stand? Long-term thinking & catastrophic risks

    … ,  and the articles in the series will be collated here  as they are published. If a nuclear warhead detonated … We need to think seriously about and plan for these risks as well as those posed by the catastrophes that play out over … a “Parliamentary Commissioner for Future Generations". 5 It may be that unless there are future-focused institutions …
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  • Should smokefree indoor areas = vapefree areas?

    … about how the wider uptake of e-cigarette use (known as “vaping”) will be managed. In this blog, we consider … nicotine-free) by making vaping relatively more attractive as it is allowed where tobacco smoking is not. Indeed, vapers … were not supposed to” [4]. Also evidence from NZ smokers (5) and US smokers (6) suggests that many support smokefree …
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  • Proposals to reduce youth vaping: Important steps but a more comprehensive approach needed

    … As part  of the consultation process  to denicotinise … strategies that address four domains, known colloquially as the “4Ps”; 2  these include  place  (or availability);  … potentially high exposure and access to vaping products, 5  may have helped normalise vaping as a common lifestyle …
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  • Another Havelock North? Govt undoing protections for drinking water safety

    … the Havelock North campylobacteriosis outbreak stated, “As time passes, knowledge of the circumstances of the August … are estimated to experience gastrointestinal disease as a result of pathogen-contaminated drinking water each … to have cost the town over $21 million ($2,440/household). 5 The Inquiry noted this was likely an underestimate and that …
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  • How to best describe NZ’s border control problems around COVID-19 with a possible typology

    … to describe situations where border control is not working as it ideally should. So in this blog we explore the possible … example, earthquakes in NZ might be considered “events” as there is no human-designed system that is capable of … early in the pandemic resulted in sustained transmission 5 ). This situation can result in complacency because the …
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  • Long COVID: a crucial reason for vax, mask, and distance

    … would therefore choose to maximise vaccination coverage as well as minimise risk of infection with standard public health and … of those hospitalised experienced long-COVID symptoms; 27.5% among the symptomatic but non-hospitalised; and 19% among …
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