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  • What does recent biomarker literature say about the likely harm from e-cigarettes?

    … levels of risk to vapers relative to tobacco smokers. Yet as the situation with vaping is very dynamic (new products, … many models of vaporisers have adjustable features such as variable voltage/wattage and air flow. Users may also … (as per previous reports by Public Health England (5) and the Royal College of Physicians in the UK (6)), …
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  • Highly variable cost-effectiveness with disease characteristics and age: Herceptin as a Case Study

    … decision, and finally an over-ruled PHARMAC decision as the 12-month course of Herceptin evolved into an election … has spread regionally (to nearby tissue or lymph nodes as opposed to distant organs like the liver), a 12-month … cost of 12 months of Herceptin is roughly about NZ$68,000 as per the Pharmaceutical Schedule. Generally speaking, most …
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  • Progress towards a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan: Congratulations to the Government

    … enhance established tobacco control interventions, such as mass media campaigns and smoking cessation support. … specialist R18 stores. Pharmacies have also been suggested as an option that could provide a strong link with smoking … support reducing the number of retail outlets to around 5% of the current number (i.e., from around 6000 to 300). …
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  • Surviving winter: NZ’s journey through 145 years of seasonal survival – New study

    … deaths from 7.9% of annual deaths in the 1920s, down to 4.5% in the 2010s (1450 excess deaths per year).  These and … between winter and the rest of the year is measured as an index (EWMI). It compares mortality in the four coldest … periods, and after some adjustment, expresses the excess as a ratio. The index is highest in temperate climates such …
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  • Long Covid Update – a threat that continues to demand a strong response

    … , 3 we focus on recent evidence. An Appendix (available as a downloadable PDF) provides additional background … the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, as: “Signs and symptoms that develop during or after an … long-term health effects caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection”. 5 These definitions fall short of considering the whole …
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  • The Brits are doing it: likely health benefits from a levy on soft drinks

    … of 18 pence per litre on ‘mid-sugar’ drinks (5 to 8g per 100 ml) and 24 pence per litre on ‘high-sugar … to an increase in price of: 75% for high-sugar drinks such as regular Coca-Cola, Red Bull and orange juice 31% for mid-sugar drinks sugar such as Coca-Cola life (stevia supplemented) 0% for low sugar …
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  • Proposed Emissions Reduction Plan: A weak response to a weak target

    … to increased emissions so are working against the ERP2. As a result, Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) is unlikely to meet … Contribution (NDC). Our NDC means we have committed as a country to reducing net greenhouse gas emissions to 50% … sufficient emissions reduction and a just transition. 5 The main proposals for emissions reduction technologies are …
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  • The Smokefree 2025 Action Plan: key findings from the ITC New Zealand (EASE) project

    … The ITC New Zealand study (referred to internationally as ITC NZ and in NZ as EASE) is part of a 29-country international collaboration … among the public as a whole and among non-smokers. 4 5 More detailed information on support for the smokefree goal …
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  • Carcinogen exposure in Aotearoa workplaces is unacceptably high

    … New Zealand and cancer contributes to ~50% of these deaths as well as to at least a third of hospitalisations due to … at work and that the prevalence of exposure to multiple (>5) carcinogens is similarly unacceptably high. More usefully, …
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  • Reducing tobacco retail availability: how could this be achieved and what evidence supports the NZ Government’s proposals?

    … each of these three measures. Licensing tobacco retailers As the Government’s proposals note, retailer licensing is a … licensing for tobacco outlets has been implemented, such as Finland and South Australia, the outlets that stop selling … than one tobacco retailer in an area of 10,000 residents, as opposed to the status quo of one per 800 residents [8], …
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