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  • Fast-track Bill puts NZ on wrong track, threatening public health

    … Approvals Bill to Parliament, sparking widespread concern. 1-6 The Bill risks taking Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) in the … Minister for Regional Development (more detail in Appendix 1 ) to appr ove any project they deem regionally or … Whare Wānanga o Otāgo ki Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara   Appendix 1: Further detail on Ministers responsible for approvals. The …
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  • World moving forward on the smokefree generation - Aotearoa NZ goes backwards

    … standard, and a smokefree generation policy (SFG). 1 The SFG (also called the tobacco free generation), differs … of tobacco products to people born on or after January 1, 2000. Encouraged by that success,  nearby towns Stoneham … a liberal interpretation of the alleged problem). Table 1 presents these data.    Table 1: Projected numbers of …
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  • Removing the nicotine from tobacco: The key component of the current Smokefree Bill

    … having less than 0.4mg nicotine per gram of tobacco. 1 Our blog in April 2021 summarised the case for … Plan. Recent studies, including two comprehensive reviews, 1 2 provide further evidence for denicotinisation’s likely … dramatically reduce overall daily smoking prevalence to 3.1% by 2025, and to 7.7% for Māori. Māori daily smoking …
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  • Smoking and vaping among 14 to 15 year olds: Government action urgently needed

    … appeal, convenience of vaping to young people . 1-4 Not surprisingly, youth vaping rose rapidly; the ASH Year … Y10 students) while 802 Y10 students smoke each day (i.e., 1.2% of Y10 students). Even if only a small proportion of the … relatively few people (see Appendix, Figure A2 ).  Figure 1 presents our analyses. Figure 1 shows that in 2019, around …
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  • Cycling and walking in six NZ cities: Where are we at?

    …   Figure 1 On-road cycle lane Wellington. Photo credit: Jenny Ombler … is good for health, the environment and the economy (1-3). But how well are cities in NZ doing in this area? In … staff working on cycling or walking issues ranges from 1.5 FTE/100,000 people (Christchurch) to 3.7 FTE/100,000 …
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  • Nine things New Zealand must do to tackle the child obesity crisis

    … fattest high income country both for children and adults (1), which means no progress since 2014 (2). It is critical … by both their importance and likely achievability. Figure 1: Healthy food environment policy index (Food-Epi)(5) Key … than for the infrastructure support indicators (1/3 of indicators rated as having ‘low’ or ‘very little if …
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  • Reducing tobacco retail availability: counterarguments to industry claims

    … as much as the average convenience shopper per year” [1] to UK retailers. Independent research evidence does not … to an average of 24% for the other convenience products [1]. Further, a UK estimate suggests the average weekly profit made by small retailers on tobacco products is 1.6% of total sales income (whereas profit from non-tobacco …
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  • Reducing salt in food good for health and NZ’s health budget – New research

    … – it is the eleventh most important risk factor globally [ 1 ], with the same ranking for Australasia. In particular, we … 3500 mg of sodium per day (around 9 grams of salt – or 1.5 teaspoons of salt) currently for the typical NZ adult – … of extra life. This “sinking lid” strategy resulted in $1.1 billion in cost savings from fewer heart attacks and …
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  • The hardening hypothesis for smoking – but does the evidence point to “softening” in NZ?

    … surveys have generally found no evidence of hardening (1-11). The most recent international evidence comes from a … For 2014 vs 2008 the odds ratio for recent (within last 1-12 months) quitting was 1.14 (95% CI: 0.53-2.46) and for sustained (within previous …
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  • Aotearoa’s perinatal and maternal death rates remain inequitable and unjust

    … (PMMRC) has recently published its latest Annual Report. 1  It acknowledges the individuals and whānau affected by the … related deaths) with a mortality rate of 11.2 per 1,000 births. This includes 205 terminations of pregnancy, … and rurality.  The neonatal death rate was 3.04 per 1,000 live births in 2021. While this rate has remained …
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