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  • Vaping needs much tighter regulation as we approach Smokefree Aotearoa 2025: Two new studies

    … devices could be around a third as harmful to health as smoking. The second uses these findings to estimate the net … maximise benefits and minimise harms. Background Tobacco smoking is a major health problem in Aotearoa New Zealand … (DALYs) lost (95%UI: 108,000 to 125,000) [1]. Furthermore, smoking causes health inequities, with poorer health for …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could taking the nicotine out of smoked tobacco products help us get there?

    … that denicotinising smoked tobacco products could have on smoking prevalence in Aotearoa New Zealand. A policy … strategy to achieve rapid and equitable reductions in smoking. The APDD includes a proposal to reduce nicotine in … Using an Excel spreadsheet populated with NZ Health Survey smoking/vaping prevalence data, we modelled trends to 2025 in …
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  • Tobacco Excise Taxes and the Smokefree 2025 Goal: Some Ways Forward

    … policy’s effectiveness and have “ less effect on reducing smoking rates, most particularly amongst the target groups of … The vast majority of smokers wish they had never started smoking. 1,2 High tobacco prices stimulate quitting among smokers while also discouraging smoking initiation among adolescents and young people. 3-5   …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa Action Plan: Why this could eliminate smoking disparities for Māori

    … control 1 . The Plan specifically references eliminating smoking related inequities, strengthening Māori governance … Plan in relation to kaupapa Tupeka Kore and high rates of smoking among Māori. The views offered in this blog are those … as usual tobacco control measures not enough to address smoking disparities. Traditional, business as usual (BAU), …
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  • Smoking and vaping among 14 to 15 year olds: Government action urgently needed

    … from the ASH Year 10 Snapshot survey and explore trends in smoking among young people who vape. We find the proportion … and 2023. These results suggest vaping is not displacing smoking, which was already low among Y10 students, but is … policies that protect young people from both vaping and smoking. Vaping’s role in fostering population wellbeing …
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  • The 5000 annual deaths caused by smoking also matter

    … every day. We critically review the narrative that smoking is a “choice”, a mantra perpetuated by the tobacco … tragic – and equally avoidable – loss of life caused by smoking ( an estimated 5000 people every year ). Deaths on … and what has made us so blasé about the people killed by smoking? We suggest a well-propagated “choice” narrative …
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  • Retailing of vaping products – New NZ Research

    … case and propose that only retailers skilled in supporting smoking cessation should sell ENDS. In this blog, we probe … in NZ). Image by  haiberliu  from  Pixabay Balancing smoking initiation among youth with cessation among smokers … to outlets selling tobacco is associated with higher youth smoking. 3 These findings suggest that any addictive product, …
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  • The Smokefree 2025 Action Plan: key findings from the ITC New Zealand (EASE) project

    … findings from people who smoke or have recently quit smoking and who participated in the ITC New Zealand project … from 2016-2021. The blog documents attitudes towards smoking and quitting, support for, and perceived impacts of, … increasing expenditure on media campaigns to promote smoking cessation and discourage uptake of smoking among …
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  • NZ Health Survey data released today reinforce Smokefree Legislation is crucial to reduce smoking inequities

    … Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) data for 2022/2023 show that smoking prevalence continues to decrease however very substantial inequities in smoking remain. Māori continue to bear a much heavier burden of harm from smoking than non-Māori University of Otago researchers from …
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  • The case for denicotinising tobacco in Aotearoa NZ remains strong: response to online critique

    … of the Smokefree Aotearoa Action Plan would affect smoking prevalence. Given the interest in the study due to … of smoked tobacco products would likely profoundly reduce smoking prevalence and health inequities. The key criticism – … highly effective as the key policy to dramatically lower smoking prevalence and reduce health loss and inequalities …
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