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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could making tobacco products available only through community pharmacies help us get there?

    … and supermarkets.   The health burden from tobacco smoking in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) is massive – with an … to 125,000) disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). 1 Smoking causes substantial health inequities and results in … strategy to achieve rapid and equitable reductions in smoking. It includes a proposal to greatly reduce the retail …
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  • Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation

    … Are smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation well-designed? We were involved in a study … indicates the value of mobile phone text messaging for smoking cessation [6], including for Māori [7]. We also noted … computer-based and other electronic aids can assist with smoking cessation [10]; and that (ii) mobile phone …
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  • The case for banning cigarette filters

    … 2025 Action Plan sets out a perceptive vision for reducing smoking prevalence and ensuring that, once the goal is … similar function before then). Even before evidence about smoking’s harms was clearly documented, cigarette advertising … prevent sore throats” (see Figure below). As the harms of smoking became well-established, 1 2 filters’ role as a …
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  • How the tobacco industry targets young people to achieve a new generation of smokers

    … the rapidly accumulating scientific evidence that smoking causes serious, and often fatal, diseases.[2] The … to cost a billion lives this century, unless current smoking trajectories change dramatically.[6] Most of those whose health and longevity will be harmed by smoking begin using tobacco as young people, attracted by …
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  • Not forgetting the benefits to youth and non-smokers – an example from increases in tobacco taxes

    … which interventions and policies to implement to reduce smoking prevalence often focus on the potential impacts … of tobacco and vaping products, and minimal uptake of smoking among mature (>25 years) adults [1], policies which … implications for future health. Reducing uptake of smoking among young people is also a key component of …
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  • Will liberalising nicotine availability increase quitting?

    … stores and pharmacies, to ensure people wishing to quit smoking can obtain expert advice and thus maximise their … to obtain nicotine) is likely to be less harmful than smoking tobacco when smokers make a full transition from smoking to vaping (1). It also recognises that nicotine …
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  • Good news on declining smoking rates, especially for Māori. Is it credible? What next?

    … Smoking rates have fallen in the 2013 Census compared to the … since 2006 – ignoring those people not replying to the smoking question.  Allowing for modest growth in the adult … is a 24.4% fall (or a 4.4 percentage point fall) in the smoking prevalence. Are these results credible? The new …
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  • Removing the nicotine from tobacco: The key component of the current Smokefree Bill

    … of smoked tobacco products, and accelerate the decline in smoking prevalence equitably; Extensive supporting evidence, … and are more likely to make quit attempts and stop smoking; Concerns that denicotinisation would result in compensatory smoking and increased exposure to toxins have proven …
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  • Tobacco product innovation in a smokefree world. Oxymoron or commercial cynicism?

    … have presented a vision of a smokefree world, where smoking prevalence has fallen to minimal levels.  This goal … products, such as flavour capsule cigarettes, that enhance smoking’s appeal.  This product innovation strategy confirms … quickly as possible. 1 The FSFW website states “Let’s End Smoking in this Generation” a call to action made explicit by …
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  • Patterns of declining smoking in NZ – But more action needed by the New Government

    … from the NZ Health Survey indicate ongoing declines in smoking for Māori and for European New Zealanders. In this … the NZ Health Survey indicate recent ongoing declines in smoking, with a graph below of the trends since 2012 … suggests that a relatively important part of the reduced smoking prevalence is due to reduced uptake (as opposed to …
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