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  • (Un)licensed to kill: do we need to regulate how tobacco is sold?

    …   Example of a tobacco free retailer in Northland (Source: Northern … articles by Aspire2025 researchers have explored how tobacco sales in New Zealand could be more effectively … from the Psychoactive Substances Act 2013 could inform tobacco supply policies (both published in the NZ Medical …
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  • “Why not just ban it?” Is it time to consider ending tobacco sales?

    … exactly that back in 2006. Why not just ban the sale of tobacco? This blog considers some arguments for and against a ban on the production (other than tobacco grown for personal use), importation and sale of tobacco products, whilst not criminalising the use of …
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  • Taxing tobacco in NZ: What we know and what could be next

    … A series of seven annual tobacco tax increases, typically at the 10% level, will end … In this blog we take a timely look at what is known about tobacco tax increases in this country, what remains unknown, and what might be needed for the next phase of tobacco taxation related policy and research. Recent trends …
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  • Tobacco product innovation in a smokefree world. Oxymoron or commercial cynicism?

    … Janet Hoek and Philip Gendall Major tobacco companies have presented a vision of a smokefree … levels.  This goal has much in common with national tobacco endgame goals and appears to create opportunities for … a common goal.  Yet, despite their public statements, tobacco companies continue to develop new products, such as …
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  • “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a response to critiques

    … to vaping. Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 is a world-leading tobacco-control goal with origins in the vision of Māori leaders for a Tupeka Kore (tobacco-free) Aotearoa, freed from the tobacco products introduced to Māori through colonisation. …
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  • Contradictions surround Government’s move to slash tax on heated tobacco products

    … Costello recently halved the excise tax levied on heated tobacco products. Tobacco companies had advocated for this change; however, the … Costello that there was no evidence to support heated tobacco products as smoking cessation tools. Ms Costello …
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  • A policy and research agenda for roll-your-own tobacco

    … (1). Existing measures have tackled different facets of tobacco marketing, with plain packaging reducing a potent form of tobacco marketing and excise tax increases making smoking less affordable. However, tobacco products themselves have received less attention. In …
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  • Smoke, heat or vapour? Ideas for risk-proportionate regulation to make World Smokefree Day irrelevant by 2025

    … momentum for the achieving Smokefree Aotearoa 2025. Tobacco and vaping products such as e-cigarettes vary greatly … it will investigate ‘risk-proportionate’ regulation for tobacco and vaping products. This blog discusses public … overwhelming need for much stronger regulation of smoked tobacco products, as these are vastly under-regulated in …
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  • Five Strategic Approaches to Achieving the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal

    … were in Māori led advocacy to address the harms that tobacco smoking and the tobacco industry cause Māori, led by Māori leaders including … priorities, such as reducing child poverty (to which tobacco use contributes) and eliminating health inequalities …
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  • Phasing out smoking: The Tobacco-Free Generation policy

    … inform the debate and submissions. Here we examine the ‘Tobacco-free generation’ policy (TFG), which provides a mechanism to protect future generations from tobacco harm and, over time, to phase out tobacco sales … endorsed by numerous public health bodies including the British and Norwegian Medical Associations and the 16th World …
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