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  • Social Marketing for Smokefree Aotearoa 2025: Reminding, Reinforcing, and Changing Social Norms

    … it may deter people from unhealthy behaviours, such as smoking, by promoting alternative new behaviours; as these … campaign promotes understanding of the health risk that smoking in cars poses to others and uses this knowledge to … of second hand smoke also questions attitudes that condone smoking in cars (e.g. “I don’t do it often, so it can’t be …
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  • Will regular tobacco tax increases get NZ to the tobacco endgame?

    … the smokefree nation 2025 target We adapted a NZ-specific smoking projection model ( Ikeda et al ) to ensure it reflected the latest Census results on smoking. We then modelled annual increases in tobacco excise … such as on-going Quitline and cessation support), NZ’s smoking prevalence is projected to fall from 15.1% in 2013 to …
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  • Would reducing the number of tobacco retail outlets achieve the Smokefree 2025 goal?

    … gap’ is through modelling studies that anticipate how smoking behaviour may change due to increasing cost of … that ready access to tobacco retailers influences both smoking initiation and limits successful smoking cessation (e.g., for youth smoking , adult smoking , …
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  • Only eight more years to go to 2025: Time for the NZ Government to step up its tobacco endgame

    … strategies that may accelerate the reduction in smoking prevalence (ie, ‘tobacco endgame strategies’). We … Government announced a goal of achieving minimal levels of smoking and tobacco availability by 2025 (1). There has been … even with yearly tobacco tax increases until 2020, daily smoking rates among Māori may still be as high as 17% by 2025 …
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  • Continuing annual tobacco tax increases: New modelling of the likely impact

    … that with these additional four years of tax increases smoking prevalence in 2020 will be 21.4% for Māori and to … most effective tool used by governments to prevent tobacco smoking uptake and reduce smoking rates – while benefiting population health and …
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  • Should smokefree indoor areas = vapefree areas?

    … seem preferable to allow vaping in some settings where smoking is not permitted; such a measure could encourage … relatively more attractive as it is allowed where tobacco smoking is not. Indeed, vapers themselves have voiced the … benefit of “normalisation” of vaping, relative to smoking, when arguing against any bans on public vaping (3). …
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  • Smoke, heat or vapour? Ideas for risk-proportionate regulation to make World Smokefree Day irrelevant by 2025

    … too slow. We need to do much more, particularly to reduce smoking among Māori and Pacific peoples [1-3]. That said, smoking prevalence among adults is decreasing (Table 1), and … : between 2011 and 2017 the prevalence of regular smoking among Year 10 Māori children reduced from 18% to 11% …
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  • Getting the Marketing Mix Right: A Commentary on NZ’s Forthcoming Vaping Regulations

    … that extends existing regulation of tobacco and herbal smoking products to vaping products (or electronic nicotine … goal of supporting smokers and encouraging switching from smoking to regulated products that pose fewer risks. Section … 22 recognises the need to reduce social approval of smoking, and discourage use of vaping and tobacco products …
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  • How much of Māori:European mortality inequalities are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco?

    … in health are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco smoking, but quantifying this is surprisingly difficult. In … And “How much are these inequalities due to tobacco smoking?” are important questions for policy-makers. The … up of each of the 1981, 1996 and 2006 censuses.  For smoking, we used the simple current, ex and never …
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  • Proposed vaping regulations for NZ: Strengths and limitations

    … to smokers who wish to use them to help them stop smoking or as substitutes for cigarettes.  It has been … customers will need to trial vaping devices). As with smoking, local authorities will be able to designate … CBD areas smoke-free to protect young people from seeing smoking practices modelled by others. 3 These regulations …
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