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  • New Zealand’s hard-won improvements to our Building Code must be retained: Here’s why

    … and health. In this Briefing, we lay out the evidence for retaining hard-won improvements to the Building Code. In … on the proposed changes than the combined total for other submissions on other code changes in the previous … and researchers. There was almost universal support, 98%, for increased standards.  Increasing the thickness of …
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  • The case for banning cigarette filters

    … Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan sets out a perceptive vision for reducing smoking prevalence and ensuring that, once the … These advertisements illustrate tobacco companies’ search for a solution to growing health “controversies” regarding … deception. 6 Claude Teague, a scientist working on filters for the tobacco company RJ Reynolds, found that changing the …
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  • What does recent biomarker literature say about the likely harm from e-cigarettes?

    … also a likely determinant of what toxicants they inhale. For example, there is evidence that vapers take longer … as shown in Table 1, but all suggest lower levels of risk for vapers compared to tobacco smokers. In particular, the … may be at least half that of tobacco smoking. The results for cancer-related toxicants were variable, from 0% to 23% of …
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  • Severe weather events linked to outbreaks of crypto in Aotearoa – New study

    … to climate change. This study provides yet further support for the need to protect drinking water supplies and … has also been identified as an important risk factor for infection. 5 The Government is planning to weaken protections for water, including drinking water. In an announcement in …
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  • Media release: New Zealand urged to boost pandemic preparedness as bird flu spreads in US cattle

    … Public health experts are issuing a call to action for New Zealand to strengthen its pandemic preparedness … ability to infect a broader range of animals raises alarms for potential future mutations. This development underscores the urgent need for New Zealand to review and enhance its pandemic response …
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  • Tobacco product innovation in a smokefree world. Oxymoron or commercial cynicism?

    … tobacco endgame goals and appears to create opportunities for health researchers and smokefree advocates to work … smokers. Philip Morris’s establishment of the Foundation for a Smokefree World (FSFW) recognises that many smokers … the FSFW’s ‘independence’ from its funder, PMI, and calls for PMI to cease its legal challenges to tobacco control …
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  • Risk proportionate regulation of nicotine and tobacco products: More rhetoric than reality

    … committed to proportionate regulation (see Appendix for quotes), as have  the tobacco industry and its  allies . … So is regulation in Aotearoa risk proportionate for tobacco and nicotine products?  We investigated this … risk  in relation to physical harm, assuming that for risk proportionate regulation to be present smoked …
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  • Smoking prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022-23 NZ Health Survey

    … Summary New Zealand Health Survey data for 2022/2023 were released today. Daily and current smoking … trends by ethnicity Gross inequities in smoking persist for Māori (Figure 2), who make up 38% of people who smoke … by 4.2% in absolute terms. Similar trends were seen for Māori who currently smoke ( Figure A1 in the Appendix ) …
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  • Lessons learned from a remote blood pressure lowering trial in Aotearoa

    … unlike more than 75 other countries in the Organisation for Co-operation and Economic Development (OECD), we don’t … to help people make lower-salt food choices when shopping for food (Figure 1). The second strategy was a … smartphone app (Figure 3). The app included procedures for people to give their consent, complete trial …
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  • What we would like to see on the Ministry of Health’s website to better inform progress on COVID-19 elimination

    … infected in NZ. The overseas travel variable is ‘yes’ for 39% of cases, the same percentage that the MoH reports as … status was officially reported. This duration is recorded for most overseas travellers. For 11% the duration is longer than 14 days. Since these are …
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