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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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  • How can we address tobacco companies’ manipulation of cigarette prices?

    … on pricing and changes in the NZ tobacco market during a period of sustained excise tax increases , and explain how … the potentially negative perception of trading down to a cheaper option. Freezing the cigarette market would prevent … quitting. Although changes in net real stick prices were often small, when aggregated over hundreds of thousands of …
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  • Getting the Marketing Mix Right: A Commentary on NZ’s Forthcoming Vaping Regulations

    … Section 3A (d) includes among the Act’s overall purposes a goal of supporting smokers and encouraging switching from … will regulate marketing of regulated products (defined as “a tobacco product, vaping product or herbal smoking … (e.g., R18 vape stores) will continue to be able to sell a more diverse flavour range.  However, while this measure …
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  • Media release: Youth vaping -The implications of addiction

    … Centre, University of Otago ASPIRE Network researchers and a psychiatrist specialising in youth addiction outline how … delivering high doses of nicotine very rapidly leading to a higher likelihood of addiction. “Nicotine is highly … as the withdrawal kicks in since loss of concentration is a key symptom. There is also evidence of long-term effects of …
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  • Risk proportionate regulation of nicotine and tobacco products: More rhetoric than reality

    … Government, and almost everyone considering how to achieve a Smokefree Aotearoa, agrees that nicotine and tobacco … smoked tobacco and vaping products could be regulated with a risk proportionate approach in Aotearoa New Zealand. Risk … Products Amendment  Act 2022 Conclusions Sixty years after the US Surgeon General’s report presented unequivocal …
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  • Media release: Urgent action needed: Aotearoa must accelerate efforts to eliminate cervical cancer

    … on the path to eliminating cervical cancer and help create a future where almost no one in Aotearoa NZ dies from this … and co-authors say we lag behind Australia and need a fully funded, equitable cervical cancer elimination … primary screening and option to self-test last year was a game-changer, barriers to screening still remain. Cervical …
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  • Climate change and cherry blossom

    … 11 (Human Health) in the 5 th IPCC Assessment Report. A commentary on the full chapter is available at the Lancet.  … to Alistair on Radio NZ’s Nine to Noon programme just after 9am on Friday 4 Apirl, discussing this report and his … Convention Centre were turned on again at 9.30 pm, but for a while it looked as though this was not the favourable omen …
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  • Media release: A call for strong leadership to reduce NZ’s dangerously high antibiotic use

    … Healthcare leaders in Aotearoa New Zealand must take a stronger lead on reducing high rates of antibiotic … patients with conditions in which antibiotics do provide a health benefit.” While Te Whatu Ora and the Royal New … past time for Te Whatu Ora and the RNZCGP to encourage a significant reduction in antibiotic prescribing.”  …. …
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  • Worth its weight: Building insulation in New Zealand

    … performance and insulation standards when it is such a good investment.   The recently proposed changes to the … by improving insulation can all add up so that at a national level the country might be spared the need for the … change . The International Energy Agency, of which NZ is a member, strongly argues the importance of seeking energy …
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