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  • Five Strategic Approaches to Achieving the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal

    … such as reducing child poverty (to which tobacco use contributes) and eliminating health inequalities (tobacco use remains a major cause of poorer health among Māori, … social group detailed in the NZ Health Survey, tobacco use is not declining quickly enough to realise the 2025 goal …
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  • The case for banning cigarette filters

    … used, which drew on “modern science” promoting charcoal use “to clean smoke”.  By contrast, the Viceroy advertisement … “regular” variants. 5 Even after regulators banned the use of these terms, tobacco companies have used other variant … the tip is automatically judged to be effective. While the use of such colour change material would probably have little …
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  • Putin and the Bomb: Why New Zealand national risk assessments should include planning for the potential impacts of nuclear winter

    … weapons Does Russian President Vladimir Putin intend to use nuclear weapons, under what circumstances, and what would … war games have concluded that Putin would probably use a nuclear weapon if he felt his regime was threatened … very much a worst case scenario given that it assumes the use of almost the entire global nuclear arsenals, which is …
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  • Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation

    … for health research and promotion in NZ. In NZ, tobacco use and overweight/obesity are the two leading risk factors … in the Table below. An additional 48 hours of experiential use by the student researchers of the top 10 weight loss apps … authorities to assess health-related apps to recommend for use to support clinical care as well as self-care. Doing this …
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  • Mind the gap: Associate Health Minister’s actions conflict with Ministry advice, align with tobacco industry lobbying

    … They stated there was not good evidence to support use of oral nicotine pouches as a reduced harm alternative to … against the likelihood that minors could also begin to use these products. This is a problem that Scandinavian … for snus. 81. Nicotine pouches are small pouches for oral use. They do not contain tobacco leaf. They contain nicotinic …
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  • BODE3 Interactive League Table Series: Prevention versus treatment, voluntary versus mandatory, targeted versus untargeted – can we generalize?

    … across the interventions (so far) in the league table.  We use graphs from the league table to cautiously explore (for … health benefits are small, resources can be freed up to use on other interventions that will bring relatively bigger …
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  • What can Aotearoa NZ learn from Australia’s new vaping policies?

    … permitted in vaping products. Requiring vaping products to use “pharmaceutical-like packaging” (i.e., plain white … to access vaping products. Disallowing supply of single-use disposable vapes, which are young people’s product of … have different needs; they require a device they can use over a longer time period, a need disposable vapes seem …
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  • Not all upcycled food is created equal: What is sustainable?

    … an environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable use of food that would otherwise be wasted. Our review of … the upcycled food industry. To ensure the most sustainable use of otherwise wasted food, assessments should consider … and food security. Focus on policies that prioritise the use of by-products in the upcycled food industry rather than …
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  • Modifying homes to prevent falls is very cost-effective: New NZ study

    … the GDP per capita level of NZ$45,000 that we typically use as a rough threshold in our modelling work, and … innovation may also be relevant here with the use of robots in Japan to run exercise programmes for older people (13-15). But maybe use of robots in this way would have low acceptability in the …
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  • An upgraded Alert Level 2 is urgently needed to address the Delta Variant threat

    … to ensure it is fit for purpose. Key improvements are mask use in all indoor environments, and creating a Level 2+ that … transmission if needed. This improved flexibility in the use of public health tools is consistent with the …
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