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  • Potential new regulatory options for e-cigarettes/ANDS in NZ

    … expressed about regulation (e.g., making ANDS regulated as medicinal products) is that it will slow innovation in the … standards for achieving a therapeutic purpose (i.e., as a pharmaceutical grade smoking cessation product as per … have features that attract youth and non-smokers to ANDS (5). The published scientific literature on ANDS is now vast. …
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  • The policy bonfire of environment protection: 10 examples that threaten public health

    … Zealand experiences 3300 premature adult deaths per year as a result of air pollution and an estimated 34,000 people … in polluted air [4] or being displaced, injured or killed as a result of vulnerability to the impacts of a climate change [5, 6] . Presently, Aotearoa New Zealand experiences 3300 …
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  • Time to stop dodging bullets? NZ’s eight recent border control failures

    … in those MIQ facilities used for managing infected cases (as opposed to facilities used for quarantining people not … were successfully contained at under six cases each (as per the time of writing). This total of eight failures is … facilities established at a place like Ōhakea air base. 5 Upgrading the standards of personal protective equipment …
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  • E-bikes are the new cars- why don’t transport policy makers treat them seriously?

    … sales of new cars in a few years. There were three times as many e-bikes and e-scooters imported into NZ in 2019 alone as there are e-cars in the entire country. You can’t go out … form of transport. Research on of e-bikes has been growing as rapidly as their sales, so in this blog we outline what we …
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  • Vaping very likely to be improving health in NZ – but how does this compare with other options?

    … study suggests that easier access to nicotine via vaping as a replacement for tobacco smoking, will improve the health … NZ population. The estimated health gain is about the same as 10% per annum tobacco tax increases per year for 15 years, … compared to a sinking lid on tobacco sales [2] which is 5 times better (see Fig 2, all results at 0% discount rate). …
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  • Patterns of declining smoking in NZ – But more action needed by the New Government

    … with long-term trend data from other sources such as the Census [1] and declining cigarette sales data. We plan … the reduced smoking prevalence is due to reduced uptake (as opposed to quitting). A range of factors including … and private sector activity (see this recent NZ review [5]). Other denormalisation may be arising from the removal of …
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  • Lime E-Scooters – Avoiding a collision course with public health?

    … economy’, where consumers make private assets, such as rooms or transport, available to others has grown rapidly with enterprises such as AirBnB and Uber now estimated to be multi-billion dollar companies. Companies, such as Lime , have recognised the rapid transformation occurring …
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  • Mounting complexities in the dietary salt & health relationship

    … agenda from here. Our interpretation should be treated as preliminary on what may be an important study; therefore, …   The overall evidence around salt and harm to health (as outlined in two recent systematic reviews (1, 2)) has been … non-communicable disease (NCD) control internationally (5), and for reducing NCD inequalities (6). However, the …
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  • Backing off international infant formula standards: A retrograde step

    … requirements “do not suit the New Zealand context”. As long as infant formula is safe and the claims on labels are not … be allowed to make their own informed choices.    Argument 5  Addresses the legitimate market for formula and how the …
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  • Poor ventilation in public transport settings in Aotearoa NZ: New data for buses and trains

    … (CO 2 ) levels in public transport settings in Aotearoa NZ as a proxy measure for poor ventilation and increased … ventilation is essential on public transport such as buses and trains to maintain good indoor air quality. … people standing in aisles (n=24 trips, 447 minutes [m]) 5.6% 45.9% 48.6% 1600 (SD=631) 664 to 3440 10.6 Lower …
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