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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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  • 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 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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  • Vaping needs much tighter regulation as we approach Smokefree Aotearoa 2025: Two new studies

    … that use of modern vaping devices could be around a third as harmful to health as smoking. The second uses … [8], identified biomarkers (levels of toxicants in the blood/urine/exhaled breath) that have specific associations … to youth by NZ-based vaping product suppliers. NZ studies show extensive youth-oriented marketing has continued after …
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  • Progress on reducing retail availability of sugary drinks in NZ

    … Open letter to Cabinet Ministers for sugary drinks tax ). A comprehensive approach to preventing obesity and protecting … local government to set limits (in the same way as can be done now for alcohol). A SSB excise tax (with revenue … earlier systematic review (7)). SSBs also appear to raise blood pressure, as per this systematic review (8). But both …
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  • Protecting children and young people from unethical junk food marketing: Upgrading the advertising codes

    … Although public health experts would generally favour a regulatory approach (given the lack of evidence for an … does present another opportunity for the food industry to show they do want to be part of the solution to reduce New … codes on exposure and power of marketing (1). So, can New Zealand make it work against the odds? And if so how? …
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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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  • New Zealand E-cigarette trial in Lancet – keeping it in perspective

    … A New Zealand randomized trial of e-cigarettes just published … a non-significant study finding. Although conversely, one can conclude that e-cigarettes were at least as effective as … just allow people to keep smoking real tobacco, as they can use e-cigarettes at work and the pub – then smoke the …
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  • New standardised packaging regulations: Some good steps, but many missed opportunities

    … innovations. This blog discusses changes that establish a new benchmark and why these are important, but also … Australia since late 2012, and early evaluations already show knowledge of how smoking’s harms has increased while the … proposition offered to smokers; that is, tobacco companies can no longer provide additional sticks to compensate for …
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  • Food and beverage taxes for a healthier diet: The Pacific experience

    … New Zealand (NZ), the Pacific and globally we are seeing a growing impact of the food environment on chronic disease … consumption of unhealthy foods and drinks 5; 6 and this can lead to reductions in chronic disease. 13; 14 NZ … more given greater price sensitivity, 17 and this can lead to reduced expenditure on taxed products. 10 To …
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