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  • High regret among people who smoke reinforces strong support for smokefree legislation

    … a policy vacuum that fails to support the aspirations of people who smoke, the vast majority of whom wish to be smokefree. Public support for smokefree … little to earn public trust and much to merit the loss of social acceptability they have experienced. 5 Widespread …
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  • Where do the parties stand? – Introducing our election series

    … choices that impact the long-term health and wellbeing of every New Zealander. These decisions are not confined to the health system but range across all parts of our society. To make an informed decision, voters need to … stand on issues that impact the health and wellbeing of the people. In the lead-up to the election, we will be …
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  • The humility of being second to Australia in cancer mortality

    … the situation really is, the problems and possible sources of error comparing survival across the ditch (it is not easy … is a major reason. Indeed, Mark Elwood (the senior author of this latest NZMJ paper) has already spoken elsewhere to … improvement has been previously reported by the Ministry of Health , ourselves and others (see North and South Graphic …
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  • Thoughts on NZ Adopting an Aussie Community Health Programme … and Forthcoming Nutrition Policy Events

    … New Zealand”. This blog post gives a high level overview of this initiative and anticipates a series of four forthcoming blog posts here at Public Health Expert. … physical activity and smoking. Actually, large chunks of it sound like the old Health Eating – Healthy Action …
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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 in the prestigious Lancet … significant difference in abstinence at 6 months.   21 out of 289 people randomised to e-cigarettes were abstinent at six months, or 7.3%.  This compares to 17 out of 295 people randomised to nicotine patches, or 5.8%.  The …
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  • Vaping prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022/23 NZ Health Survey

    … can be highly addictive. Despite strengthened regulation of vaping products (see Appendix ) recent rapid increases in … since 2015/16 except in the 2016/17 survey.   Full details of the methods and a methodology report are available on the Ministry of Health website. Data used in this Briefing are sourced …
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  • Should you swap sugar for artificial sweetener? Maybe not if you’re a mouse, but what if you’re a human?

    … we should reduce our daily sugar intake to less than 5% of total energy . In this blog, we consider two new articles … widely covered in the media, and one a systematic review of human studies published in the American Journal of … commonly found in confectionary and drinks. To test the theory that these artificial sweeteners might interfere with …
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  • The 5000 annual deaths caused by smoking also matter

    … Summary Every year we reflect on the tragic loss of life caused by road accidents yet pay almost no attention to the equally tragic loss of life caused by the tobacco industry, whose products kill … way on the equally tragic – and equally avoidable – loss of life caused by smoking ( an estimated 5000 people every …
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  • Mobile phone use while driving: Do we need smartcars that turn off smartphones?

    … New Zealand still has a problem with the use of mobile phones while driving, even though a recent law may … hazard. In 2009 the NZ Government prohibited the use of hand-held phones while driving. In last Friday’s NZ … (PDF available on request) we summarise the results of an observational study that was conducted with students …
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  • Smoking denormalization and tobacco endgames

    … will need to address. Social norms govern many aspects of our everyday lives by defining what practices we view as … Similarly, social norms mean smoking with a group of workmates will be a very different experience to smoking … and normalised in many countries during the first half of the 20 th century. Three key reasons underpinned this …
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