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  • Strengthening tobacco policy: The case for best practice packaging and regulation

    … packaging, this measure increased the rate at which smoking prevalence declined. Strengthening policies … tobacco packaging and product design could further reduce smoking uptake while stimulating and supporting cessation. In … promoting platforms and greatly reduced the appeal of smoking among young people 1, 2 . Tobacco industry opposition …
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  • The need for an expanded national smokefree law – just got more critical

    … up the question of how “open areas” of buildings (where smoking is permitted in New Zealand) are determined in … “Open Area Calculator” that is used to determine allowable smoking areas in licenced premises. The application was by … had been given an approved “open area” status – to permit smoking by customers while they gambled. The NGOs noted that …
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  • Oral nicotine products: Expanding the nicotine marketplace

    … practices, for example, by creating connections between smoking and alcohol consumption. 3,4 Legal rulings made it … 5,6 they responded with a new narrative that claimed smoking’s harms were well known and that people made an “informed choice” to begin and continue smoking. 5,7 Tobacco companies also repositioned themselves …
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  • The smokefree policies of political parties: Do they care about people who smoke?

    … addiction. Most New Zealanders who smoke regret starting smoking and most want to quit. 1 Being an ex-smoker decreases … NZ governments have had an ‘aspirational’ goal to reduce smoking prevalence and tobacco availability to minimal levels (minimal smoking prevalence often defined as less than 5%) by 2025. 6 …
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  • New standardised packaging regulations: Some good steps, but many missed opportunities

    … 2012, and early evaluations already show knowledge of how smoking’s harms has increased while the appeal of smoking has declined. Despite desperate attempts by tobacco … even earlier than hoped: quit attempts have increased, 3 smoking prevalence has continued to decline, while never …
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  • The end game should not be just Smokefree 2025 but also Vapefree

    … WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. But despite smoking rates falling since the adoption of the Smokefree 2025 target, disparities in smoking rates still exist with the largest gap evident for … children are protected from the harms associated with smoking. In recent years, the NZ Ministry of Health has …
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  • Contradictions surround Government’s move to slash tax on heated tobacco products

    … was no evidence to support heated tobacco products as smoking cessation tools. Ms Costello described the move as a … Review concluded: “No studies reported on cigarette smoking cessation, so the effectiveness of heated tobacco for … with smokers and what tools they need in order to quit smoking ”. She now needs to explain exactly who she consulted …
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  • Vaping prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022/23 NZ Health Survey

    … to vaping.  E-cigarettes or vaping may help to reduce smoking prevalence as a harm-reduced alternative to smoking for people who smoke and cannot or do not want to … A previous Briefing provided similar information on smoking prevalence patterns and trends . About the New …
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  • What does the EY Tobacco Excise Tax Evaluation Report mean for reaching the Smokefree 2025 Goal?

    … and estimated new elasticities for tobacco price with smoking prevalence using integrated data infrastructure (IDI) … In relation to impact of tobacco tax increases on smoking, the report concludes: “There is strong evidence both … find that the impact of tobacco tax increases on reducing smoking has decreased recently (or at least up to the last …
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  • New proposals to limit youth vaping from Labour: Do they go far enough?

    … of Year 10 students choosing to vape daily despite never smoking increasing from 3.1% in 2021 to 4.3% in 2022” [our … vaping among young people who smoke (or who have tried smoking) is less concerning, given vaping is widely held to pose fewer risks than smoking . However, physical harm is only one domain of …
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