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  • Illicit tobacco trade and the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal: Arguments and evidence

    … key aspects of the proposals to help inform the debate and submissions. Here we examine the illicit tobacco trade. … in reducing youth smoking uptake and increasing quitting [1]. To ensure life-saving public health policies achieve … government policies on illicit trade of tobacco products, or where illicit trade is generally accepted, also see more …
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  • How should we manage the harm caused by tobacco product waste?

    … These cigarette butts cause major environmental damage and impose significant clean-up costs on local authorities. … to a filtered option was an alternative to quitting, 1 even though filters do not reduce the risk of serious … little about how the general public perceives this problem or what they consider appropriate responses.  Our …
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  • How can we address tobacco companies’ manipulation of cigarette prices?

    … the price of tobacco thus reducing tobacco consumption and smoking prevalence. However, tobacco companies have … impact of excise taxes by creating new lower-priced brands or brand variants, and by manipulating excise tax increases … and impede development of regular smoking practices. 1-3 Acutely aware of these impacts, tobacco companies have …
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  • NZ’s Quitline Service is value-for-money: But how does it compare with other tobacco control actions in a league table?

    … means to generate health gain, address health inequalities and save costs for the NZ health system. But in this blog we … we used an established multi-state life-table model (1-3) to explore if the current NZ Quitline Service and its … (tax, outlet reduction and a tobacco-free generation), or a sinking lid on tobacco sales (see this article: (3), and …
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  • Urgently upgrading NZ’s Covid-19 response

    … indoor venues, rapidly vaccinating all remaining border and frontline health workers, ensuring that all New … now accounts for 99% of Covid-19 transmission in the UK 1 and is causing rapidly-expanding outbreaks in NZ’s … suspension of travel from a particular Australian State or Territory, if there is a risk of community spread in such …
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  • Increases in speed limits: Unjust and unjustifiable

    … between international attempts to increase road safety and the speed limit increases in the Land Transport Rule: … always generate higher rates of severe injury and death. 1 A current issue of debate is driving speeds in our … be compromised for the sake of other factors such as cost or the desire for faster transport times. ” 8   One of the …
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  • International index ranks Aotearoa New Zealand last for effective alcohol policy

    … across ten areas, helping to compare national approaches and support more effective public health strategies. New … scores across countries is used in the public policy space 1 , for example, in regard to tobacco 2 , but is less common … and Alberta (Figure 1).      Our scores were comparable or worse in most domains. Legal trading hours were longer in …
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  • NZ’s Environmental Protection Authority in a muddle over weed killer

    … which found that glyphosate is “unlikely to be genotoxic or carcinogenic”, a significant departure from IARC’s … what happened gives a muddled account of risk assessment, and misrepresents her own Authority’s publication. In this … review of hazardous substances in New Zealand. Figure 1: 3D representation of a glyphosate molecule (Wikipedia) …
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  • How to best describe NZ’s border control problems around COVID-19 with a possible typology

    … Particular words and phrases can frame how issues are considered and the … need for a corrective response to improve system design or delivery. After considering a range of words, we consider … need to improve pandemic terminology in the NZ context. 1 But of particular concern is the need to reach some …
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  • Changes in mobility in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: NZ vs other countries and the stories it suggests

    … we compare recent Google mobility data for New Zealand and a range of other countries in response to the COVID-19 … include some form of mandated physical distancing or even ‘lock-down’ measures, with non-essential activity … pandemic spread with major potential mortality impacts [1], with a goal of eliminating COVID-19 [2]. The Google data …
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