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… new on-pack warnings) that stressed the serious risks of smoking and benefits of quitting. The Smokefree 2025 goal … run by the Health Promotion Agency (HPA) and Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) .  These studies must continue to … include questions that allow young people’s perceptions of smoking to be compared before and after the policy …

… a reduced harm alternative to adults unable to quit smoking using approved cessation treatments, vaping has … concentrated among young people  and often unconnected to smoking status. The Government hopes to achieve a new … focuses on vaping’s role as a reduced harm alternative to smoking; however, it is not clear the three measures proposed …

… for policies among people who have smoked or recently quit smoking. Findings released in late 2023 showed people who … opposition were more evenly poised among people currently smoking, a majority supported the SFG (59% cf. 33% that … regretted having started to smoke; 84% would like to stop smoking, and 81% had made a quit attempt (41% had tried …

… to deliver rapid, profound and equitable reductions in smoking prevalence . Repeal is a deliberate action that the government is fully aware will very likely see smoking prevalence decline more slowly and prolong the huge … of inequitable and avoidable deaths and suffering that smoking causes. So, the stakes are high. Very high. The …

… access to tobacco retail outlets is thought to facilitate smoking uptake in youth and to reduce (the success) of smoking cessation in adults (4-6). In NZ, retail access to … and would incur travel costs and thus decrease smoking. But, until now, the estimated effects of tobacco …

… in the 1950s and 60s, in response to growing evidence that smoking caused lung cancer and other serious (and often … belief that filters reduced the risk they face from smoking, nearly all cigarettes smoked now contain filters. 4 … litter receptacles , a solution that risks normalising smoking and, according to observational studies, has limited …

… (eg, more investment in mass media campaigns to reduce smoking). This approach is argued for internationally eg, … the most effective and inexpensive way of reducing tobacco smoking prevalence, consumption, initiation and inequalities in smoking” [10]. In NZ, tobacco tax can be justified in terms …

… respiratory disease may be at least half that of tobacco smoking. The results for cancer-related toxicants were … biomarker studies where vaping is compared to tobacco smoking (ordered within disease categories by relative level … assessment (repeatedly) and confounder assessment (smoking proper, socioeconomic position, BMI, etc). What might …

… to develop and implement ‘legislation to prohibit smoking outside cafés, restaurants and bars’ (6). So, with … A partnership with Community and Public Health provides smoking cessation support for tenants where required. … Council planning is also special in aiming to have a smoking prevalence for South Auckland of under 3% by 2025. …

… that oral tobacco and nicotine products help people stop smoking, and noting concerns that novel nicotine products are … ‘for fun/I like it’ (23%). Reported use of pouches to quit smoking cigarettes or to stay quit was less common--12% and … Although some thought the products might help people quit smoking or vaping, most opposed legalisation, saying …