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Strengthening tobacco policy: The case for best practice packaging and regulation
… tobacco companies strongly opposed the introduction of plain (or standardised) packaging, this measure increased … the Smokefree 2025 goal for all peoples. Despite the lack of evidence to justify repealing the Smokefree Environments … groups . The Government should follow international best practice and move swiftly to introduce dissuasive cigarette …
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Can earthquakes be good for public health?
… and its citizens in 2011 is still very much in the minds of New Zealanders. But living in shaky Wellington, makes one … wonder what might be the potential long-term benefits of earthquakes for public health. So here are a few examples … building design, disaster preparedness, and increased use of stairs over lifts. 1) Post-earthquake rebuilds can allow …
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“100% Pure” – Public Health Goal Setting
… Associate Professor Nick Wilson, University of Otago, Wellington The “100% Pure” marketing of NZ is marketing hype and an easy target for UK tabloid … health goals worth aiming for, through 100% elimination of a hazard or risk. Namely, tobacco, human papilloma virus …
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Media release: NZ could eliminate the deadly meningococcal disease
… from the Public Health Communication Centre, University of Otago epidemiologist and Associate Professor Amanda … and colleagues look at how NZ could be permanently free of this disease and its significant risk of death and disability. Dr Kvalsvig says we have public …
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Media release: Treaty Principles Bill poses major risk to public health and equity
… The controversial Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill threatens public health and equity in … Jones and co-authors examine the critical implications of the Bill and the urgent need for public opposition to …
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Tobacco product innovation in a smokefree world. Oxymoron or commercial cynicism?
… Gendall Major tobacco companies have presented a vision of a smokefree world, where smoking prevalence has fallen to … strategy confirms long-held doubts about the sincerity of tobacco companies’ intentions. We report on our recently … to non-smokers and smokers. Philip Morris’s establishment of the Foundation for a Smokefree World (FSFW) recognises …
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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 Clinical Nutrition . The former shows deleterious effects …
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In May 2022 the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020 expires: what then?
… might by 2022 be back to pre-Covid ‘normal’. Progress has of course been made, including vaccine availability. But now we know that the need for some form of Covid management, and hence a legal framework for such … Act that should be included? For example, refining some of the offence and penalty provisions may be appropriate. And …
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Protecting children in cars from tobacco smoke: The inconsistent case of new mandatory child restraints while optional smoking persists
… introduce regulation that protects children in the event of a car crash, but are unwilling to protect them from known … and brings the country into line with international best practice. 2 There is no doubt that requiring drivers to … While the government uses legislation in this area of child health, it prefers non-legislative measures to …
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Smokefree cars legislation: Should the new government make this a priority?
… the case for the prioritisation by the new Government of a law for smokefree cars carrying children. This would … The new government has many problems to address. Years of minimal legislation for population health means that the … infant death, among many other conditions.[1] The amount of tobacco smoke pollution in cars can be worse than in the …
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