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  • How should we manage the harm caused by tobacco product waste?

    … health” and sought to reassure smokers that switching to a filtered option was an alternative to quitting, 1 even … by the mid-1990s, non-filtered brands represented a negligible share of the overall cigarette market. 3 … mislead smokers about the risks they face, they are also a pervasive litter item and environmental hazard; 5   recent …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Stemming the tide of cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … health measures to reduce demand on healthcare quickly. In a recent issue of the medical journal The Lancet , a … are already pressed to meet current demand .     So what can we do in Aotearoa New Zealand to stem the tide of cancer … reading for a full list of the most important things we can do right now to stem the future tide of cancer in this …
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  • Media release: NZ could eliminate the deadly meningococcal disease

    … epidemiology. “If we combine that infrastructure with a strategic increase in funding and availability of … that often, the families who need these vaccines the most can’t afford them.” “Remarkably we saw meningococcal cases … protections have been removed.  That tells us that simple public health measures can help to eliminate this …
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  • Youth vaping addiction: How it happens and why it matters

    … harm. The Government should assist schools to take a health approach to youth vaping, and fund youth-specific … vape, and drives increasing frequency of use. 5 Cravings can become difficult to resist within a few weeks, although … As receptors resensitise, and come back ‘online’, cravings start. 4 The body responds to receptor inactivation by making …
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  • Oral tobacco and nicotine products: Quitting aid or teen addiction risk?

    … allowing the sale of oral tobacco and nicotine products, a measure included in the National-NZ First Coalition … more nicotine products? Evidence that nicotine pouches can help people to quit smoking is currently very limited. In … websites or nicotine products Members of the public can report concerns about potentially non-compliant oral …
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  • What is happening with vaping among adolescents and young adults in Aotearoa?

    … information   . Figures 1,2 and 5 are reproduced from a recent report by ASH New Zealand, 1 figures 3, 6 and 7 are from a recent scholarly blog 2 and figure 8 is from a report published by the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation …
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  • What does recent biomarker literature say about the likely harm from e-cigarettes?

    … long-term effects of e-cigarette use on health outcomes, a lot more future research will be needed to get a reasonable understanding of the relative harms.   Why focus … market. How vapers actually use these products is also a likely determinant of what toxicants they inhale. For …
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  • A 100 years ago: The worst year of the First World War for New Zealand

    … the worst year of the First World War for New Zealand from a premature mortality perspective, with 5547 deaths. We have just presented on this topic at a Symposium at Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa … the night before the attack told the Germans of its exact start time. Passchendaele also demonstrated another ongoing …
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  • High levels of CO2 found in small study of early childhood centres: Improving ventilation in the time of COVID-19

    … alongside many other developing countries, has seen a dramatic increase of children in early childhood education … was to assess the levels of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) in a sample of early childhood education centres to determine … This small project has shown that shown that CO 2 monitors can better identify a space’s ventilation status and thus …
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  • Junk food and sugar-sweetened beverage taxes: Likely to produce numerous benefits in NZ

    … Poor diet is a major risk factor for excess weight gain and … of GHG emissions,[7] meaning changes in consumer diets can contribute to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – which in turn can mitigate the indirect effects of climate change back onto …
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