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  • What will it take to get to under 5% smoking prevalence 2025? Lots of cessation.

    … Professor Tony Blakely The New Zealand Government has a goal of a Smokefree Nation … less than 5% by 2025.    This should be a major focus of the New Zealand contingent at the Smokefree Oceania Conference in Auckland next week.  But …
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  • Tackling housing instability for LGBTIQ+ people in Aotearoa

    … experiences of housing instability. This Briefing reports the findings and implications of a study focused on LGBTIQ+ … we need political changes such as greater enforcement of the Healthy Homes Standards and improvements to the Tenancy Tribunal process. Internationally, lesbian, gay, …
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  • Will liberalising nicotine availability increase quitting?

    … Do the New Zealand (NZ) Government’s proposed changes to liberalise the e-cigarette market set out a robust process for helping … smoke to switch to e-cigarettes? In this blog, we discuss the proposed regulatory changes and explain some of the …
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  • Alcohol-related harms now available on demand

    … Summary Alcohol is one of the major causes of health loss in Aotearoa NZ. It is now … – within two hours from ordering. This Briefing summarises the evidence for potential harm that this easy access may contribute to. It also describes some of the regulatory reforms to alcohol legislation that the NZ …
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  • Can oral tobacco and nicotine products help people to stop smoking?

    … Summary Cabinet has approved in principle the sale of oral tobacco products (e.g. snus) and oral … cessation aids is limited, especially when compared with the quality of evidence supporting the use and efficacy of Medsafe-approved nicotine replacement …
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  • Physical activity or nutrition interventions: which can improve population health the most and save the most health dollars?

    … of Parliament last week on taxes and subsidies on food, the pros and cons ( slides here ). In this blogpost we go … in terms of health gain and potential for cost savings to the health system. This presentation arose because Diabetes … and subsidies, and how challenging they are to model. The discussions also ranged more widely to other …
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  • Youth vaping addiction: How it happens and why it matters

    … life and daily rituals. Policy responses need to reflect the highly addictive nature of vaping, particularly in young … people, and mitigate risks of vapers turning to smoking. The definition of vaping harm needs to include psychological, … financial and social impacts, as well as physical harm. The Government should assist schools to take a health …
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  • Perspective: Options for licensed retailing of nicotine-containing E-Cigarettes in NZ

    … The NZ Ministry of Health is currently consulting on options … options: pharmacies and vape shops. It also highlights the need for a very well-considered approach, given … country and has seen problems such as not infrequent law breaking, eg, illegal sales to young people by outlets such …
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  • Lessons from Canada for NZ: Carbon, Cycling, Tobacco, Nutrition and Cannabis

    … this blog we briefly look at 6 potential lessons for NZ in the domains of: (i) responding to climate change; (ii) … on various health and social issues. For these reasons the Canadian policy experience may be relevant to NZ and be … charges on greenhouse gas emissions can be popular with the public if revenues are given back to citizens [1]. This …
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  • Bowel cancer screening – An interesting new US study and thoughts about the NZ situation

    … published in a top US journal (JAMA). We discuss the cost-effectiveness of such screening and consider the current NZ context for bowel cancer screening.   The US health system is renowned for doing things fully – …
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