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  • What does the EY Tobacco Excise Tax Evaluation Report mean for reaching the Smokefree 2025 Goal?

    … Māori and Pacific smokers and their whanāu, and increasing cigarette-related robberies from dairies. The Minister was … strong social justice and equity case for hypothecation i.e. since tobacco excise taxes can impose a financial burden … goal. There is growing consensus based on survey data (e.g. from the NZ Health Survey ) and modelling studies [8, 9] …
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  • How the tobacco industry targets young people to achieve a new generation of smokers

    … strategy had increased Camel’s share of the children’s cigarette market segment from 0.5% to 32.8% (estimated sales … While electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), such as e-cigarettes and vapes, could help smokers who have not been … influenced young people, exposure to cartoon characters on e-liquid packaging is associated with susceptibility to …
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  • Possible strategic approaches to achieve the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

    … of existing ‘mainstream’ best practice tobacco control e.g., enhanced mass media, extensions to smokefree policies, … tobacco control interventions from around the world e.g., plain packaging, banning additives and a minimum retail … ongoing current tobacco tax increases). We assumed that e-cigarette regulations currently in NZ will be hard to change …
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  • The Two-Faced Tobacco Industry: Transformation and Cigarillos

    … Leaf”, has led many to ask how launching a cheaper cigarette-like product fits with PMI’s vision of a smoke-free … Leaf in June this year exploited this loophole. Unlike the cigarette variants within PMI’s lowest-priced Chesterfield brand (e.g., Chesterfield Red), Chesterfield Leaf is classified as a …
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  • Oral nicotine products: Expanding the nicotine marketplace

    … have diversified their nicotine products to include e-cigarettes (ECs) heated tobacco products (e.g., IQOS) and, more recently, oral nicotine products … is absorbed via oral mucosa rather than by inhalation of cigarette smoke or EC aerosol. Yet, although we lack robust …
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  • Proposals to reduce youth vaping: Important steps but a more comprehensive approach needed

    … by a “cigalike” product, a visual analogue of a smoked cigarette) 6  to a much broader market, including people who … design, the development of nicotine salts has enabled e-liquids to deliver higher nicotine concentrations without … have little effect on how people who smoke access vapes or e-liquids. Second, this step would make vaping products less …
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  • Daily nicotine use increases among youth in Aotearoa NZ: The 2021 Snapshot Y10 Survey

    … In 2018, 1.8% of survey respondents reported using an e-cigarette on a daily basis; that proportion had risen to 3.1% … features both heated tobacco products and vaping products (e.g., Veev)), illustrate aspirational, lifestyle marketing …
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  • The Smokefree 2025 Action Plan: key findings from the ITC New Zealand (EASE) project

    … were similar between Māori and non-Māori participants (e.g. 45% Māori vs 52% non-Māori had tried to quit in last … completely, and 13% reported they would switch to vaping/e-cigarettes. In addition, almost a quarter (23%) anticipated … when smokers smoke outdoors in public places 7 and cigarette butts were the most frequently identified litter …
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  • Retailing of vaping products – New NZ Research

    … the sale of ENDS, HTPs, or associated vaping items such as e-liquids, to specialist vape stores. 2   This approach … “throat-hit”. 4,5  Others found it difficult to know which e-liquid nicotine concentration would satisfy their nicotine … who reported making their last purchase of e-liquid, e-cigarette cartridges or disposable e-cigarettes from a vape …
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  • Phasing out smoking: The Tobacco-Free Generation policy

    … that there is a ‘safe age’ for smoking, and Establish the cigarette as ‘a badge of coming of age, a symbol of the onset … addictive. Other products found to be harmful to health (e.g. asbestos, leaded petrol) have been phased out using … combination with other proposals in the draft Action Plan (e.g. taking the nicotine out of tobacco , retail outlet …
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