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  • The marked decline of sudden mass fatality events in NZ (1900 to 2015)

    … Professor Nick Wilson and Associate Professor George Thomson Our recently published … What were the main findings of this new study? Our study (1) found a total of 56 sudden mass fatality events with 10 or more fatalities occurring between 1900 and 2015 in NZ. …
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  • Covid-19 was no black swan, but a paradigmatic black elephant

    … a resident of Westport (a New Zealand town flooded by a ‘1 in 100 year event’) even stated that he knew the area had … organisations such as the UN, WHO, World Bank, and organisations such as the US National Academy of Sciences … been pre-contemplated, then ‘off the shelf’ solutions, or at least solution outlines, might have been available at …
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  • Strengthening tobacco policy: The case for best practice packaging and regulation

    … companies strongly opposed the introduction of plain (or standardised) packaging, this measure increased the rate … Strengthening policies regulating tobacco packaging and product design could further reduce smoking uptake while … greatly reduced the appeal of smoking among young people 1, 2 . Tobacco industry opposition successfully delayed the …
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  • High levels of CO2 found in small study of early childhood centres: Improving ventilation in the time of COVID-19

    … respiratory viruses in indoor spaces where people gather and spend time. 1 In this study run by medical students, the CO 2 levels were … be opened but all the rest of the rooms either had windows or sliding doors that could be opened. None of the monitored …
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  • Why the New Zealand Government should reconsider abandoning denicotinised cigarettes

    … leads to significant reductions in cigarette smoking and dependence, and increased quit attempts and quit success. … plan is denicotinisation – rendering cigarettes minimally or non-addictive by reducing their nicotine content to a … to over 7000 chemicals including about 70 carcinogens. 1 The tobacco industry has harnessed the addictive power of …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Improving the cost, composition and availability of foods can save lives

    … looks at solutions in the food system: reducing the cost and increasing the availability of healthy food and reformulation of processed food. This blog is part of the … ), which has been estimated to reduce dietary cost by 13% or $28.70 a week for an average family of four . Or …
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  • The end game should not be just Smokefree 2025 but also Vapefree

    … New Zealand has been a world leader in the smokefree arena and is doubling down on its efforts to reach the 2025 goal. … This blog asks if it is enough to aim just for smokefree or whether Te Tiriti o Waitangi demands we aim higher and … in this group smoke compared with only 8% of non-Māori (1). It is further obliged under the UN Convention on the …
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  • What can Aotearoa NZ learn from Australia’s new vaping policies?

    … product imports, end sales of disposable vaping products, and decrease the appeal of vaping to young people. Should NZ … vapes, which are young people’s product of choice. 1 While the details still need to be outlined, these measures … , Australia has not announced plans to denicotinise or greatly reduce the availability of smoked tobacco products …
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  • Cyclone Gabrielle by the numbers – A review at six months

    … Gabrielle caused significant damage across northern and eastern regions of the North Island of Aotearoa New … there has been an inquiry into slash and land use , 1 2 and an ongoing review of the Hawke’s Bay Civil Defence … account of the mental stress faced by people with damaged or written off homes and livelihoods. The Treasury has …
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  • What does recent biomarker literature say about the likely harm from e-cigarettes?

    … is very dynamic (new products, changing ways people vape) and there is no evidence yet about long-term effects of … that vapers take longer inhalations than do smokers (eg, 1-4). Further, many models of vaporisers have adjustable … measure excreted metabolites (such as in exhaled breath or urine), were more likely to capture the impacts from what …
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