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Optimising the effects of plain packaging for tobacco – making Quitline information more salient
… and success of quit attempts. This blog post details a just published study on this topic. It also suggests that … we can improve on their legislation. Packages featuring a standard and unattractive colour, embellished only by large … that explicitly directed smokers to cessation support had a marked effect on callers to the Quitline, many of whom …
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Severe weather events linked to outbreaks of crypto in Aotearoa – New study
… weather events with heavy rainfall or flooding may play a role in the development of some outbreaks of this … Cryptosporidium pathogen loads in waterways and increased infection rates. 10-12 Runoff due to heavy rainfall could … in NZ In our just published study , 17 we identified a total of 15,822 cases of cryptosporidiosis that were …
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Meat, health, hospitals, and sustainability*
… our healthcare system, and our environment are all in a state of crisis. This was summarised in the recent Ministry … recommendation for those unwell in hospital”, adding “often meat and dairy in meals is one of the best ways of … with a diet-related chronic disease? We know that there is often no better time to get smokers off tobacco than when …
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Media release: Proposed greenhouse gas Emissions Reduction Plan: A weak response that misses the target
… Communication Centre ( Proposed Emissions Reduction Plan: A weak response to a weak target ), Professor Simon Hales and co-authors examine … submissions until 25 August. “The proposed ERP2 contains a number of tactics that will delay clear decarbonisation …
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Introducing an Online Data Explorer Tool: 30 years of NZ mortality and cancer data
… this important data closer to users we have developed a user-friendly interactive online graphing tool . Below we … NZ Census Mortality and CancerTrends (NZCMS/CT) Study – a record linkage study of census data, mortality data, and … control interventions (3). The Data Explorer provides a flexible and interactive tool to access the data generated …
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A policy and research agenda for roll-your-own tobacco
… facets of tobacco marketing, with plain packaging reducing a potent form of tobacco marketing and excise tax increases … of RYO users as “[an] old, poor, grumpy bloke in a pub” (p. iii77) (10), or “socially dysfunctional … older, heavily addicted and ostracised smokers (12-14). In a recent study, we explored how young people manage that …
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Warmest New Zealand winter ever recorded – The Government should do more on climate change
… fires, and perhaps even fewer excess winter deaths (a documented problem in this country, especially for … and catastrophic levels of damage to human civilisation – a public health threat on a scale larger than we usually consider. While these risks …
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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 have helped somewhat. This blog discusses … to make or answer calls (even though their vehicle was often still in moving traffic at the lights). Other notable …
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Progress toward Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 – how might tobacco retail restrictions contribute?
… we briefly consider the results and put the findings in a wider context of how New Zealand might reach its Smokefree … ~6000 retailers nationally (see previous blog for a map) and an average travel time of just over 3 minutes from … strategy (a ban from selling tobacco to those born after a certain year) (11). The sinking lid strategy …
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Retailing of vaping products – New NZ Research
… gains depends on “the extent to which they can act as a route out of smoking for New Zealand’s 550,000 daily smokers”. 6 Retailers could play a helpful role in determining what population health gains are realised, but only if they have a sound knowledge of the products they sell and how …
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