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  • Ethnic inequalities in mortality in NZ and how to reduce them further

    … ethnic groups, improving access to health services, tobacco control and addressing the obesogenic environment. … consumption in low-income neighbourhoods (10). Advancing tobacco control: The second most important risk factor causing health loss in NZ is tobacco smoking (7). Our results for ethnic inequalities in …
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  • Media release: Associate Health Minister’s tobacco policy contradicts official advice, aligns with industry lobbyists

    … Associate Health Minister Casey Costello’s recent tobacco policy recommendations conflict with official advice, aligning instead with tobacco lobbyists' talking points, according to an analysis … and allowing the sale of oral nicotine products, including tobacco and nicotine pouches. The details are laid out in a  …
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  • Standardised packaging: A new era in reducing tobacco marketing in NZ

    … From today, all tobacco products in New Zealand will start appearing in … the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal.   From today, all tobacco products in New Zealand will start appearing in … labels, but none of the brand livery formerly conveyed on tobacco packaging.  For decades, tobacco companies have used …
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  • Tax reform pros & cons: A brief look from a Public Health perspective

    … justify some tax policy in NZ e.g., for excise taxes on tobacco, alcohol, and gambling. Indeed, NZ is one of the world leaders in tobacco tax policy – with a recent series of annual increases … pollutants and hazardous products e.g., carbon emissions, tobacco and alcohol. This revenue-neutral approach has worked …
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  • New standardised packaging regulations: Some good steps, but many missed opportunities

    … , but they also miss opportunities to recognise tobacco industry innovations. This blog discusses changes … of smoking has declined. Despite desperate attempts by tobacco companies to manufacture an illicit trade problem, … are important and will undoubtedly curtail some of the tobacco industry’s responses seen in Australia. However, …
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  • Media release: ‘Zombie arguments’ are being used to justify repealing smokefree

    … New Zealand’s smoke-free measures will boost illicit tobacco trade are false according to public health experts. … an increase in a black market have long been touted by the tobacco industry when it sees its products under threat. … , echoed by  some media commentators , repeating tobacco industry arguments that measures in smokefree …
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  • Strengthening tobacco policy: The case for best practice packaging and regulation

    … Summary Although tobacco companies strongly opposed the introduction of plain … prevalence declined. Strengthening policies regulating tobacco packaging and product design could further reduce … the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Act 2023 (SERPA), the Government has …
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  • High regret among people who smoke reinforces strong support for smokefree legislation

    … strong support for denicotinisation , large reductions in tobacco availability, and the smokefree generation policy. In … typically been high, and likely bolstered by evidence that tobacco companies have targeted children, 1 and undermined … harms. 2 3 Widely viewed as corporate pariahs, 4   tobacco companies have done little to earn public trust and …
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  • New Zealand E-cigarette trial in Lancet – keeping it in perspective

    … Uncertainty exists about the place of e-cigarettes in tobacco control, and more research is urgently needed to … e-cigarettes may just allow people to keep smoking real tobacco, as they can use e-cigarettes at work and the pub – … likely harm is an order(s) of magnitude less than smoking tobacco. But the balance of harms and benefits is still very …
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  • Government struggling with evidence: HTPs, addiction levels, and Smokefree 2025

    … The Government recently halved the excise tax on heated tobacco products. Associate Health Minister Casey Costello … there is no robust, independent evidence to support heated tobacco products as smoking cessation tools. Nor does the … Earlier this year, the Coalition Government repealed tobacco endgame measures that would have substantially …
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