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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 …
  • New e-liquid flavour restrictions: Potential impacts on young people and people who smoke

    … to sell diverse flavours could foster switching from smoking to ENDS use and accelerate progress towards the … and by employing the same appeals once used to foster smoking uptake among young people, ENDS marketing quickly … that might seem low, but that’s in schools where smoking has hit basically zero per cent .” 8 NZ youth studies …
  • Helping smokers quit: The case for tobacco pack inserts

    … Summary Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) has a goal of reducing smoking prevalence rapidly and equitably. However, reliance … cards placed inside tobacco packages, offering advice on smoking cessation, could be a highly effective, low-cost way to support smoking cessation in NZ.  Since the Smokefree Environments …
  • Phasing out smoking: The Tobacco-Free Generation policy

    … the health of the population. It’s time to address the smoking pandemic, since ‘ cigarettes kill more people each … fire, and murder combined ’. Two key facts about smoking are that: Nicotine is highly addictive (reckoned … Send a misleading message that there is a ‘safe age’ for smoking, and Establish the cigarette as ‘a badge of coming of …
  • Government struggling with evidence: HTPs, addiction levels, and Smokefree 2025

    … argued this move would see 7,200 “hardcore smokers” stop smoking. However, there is no robust, independent evidence to support heated tobacco products as smoking cessation tools. Nor does the evidence support … If the Government is, as it claims, committed to reducing smoking prevalence, it should re-introduce denicotinisation, …
  • Public Health Solutions Series: Achieving a Smokefree Aotearoa

    … which could rapidly, substantially and equitably reduce smoking prevalence : mandated denicotinisation and a … to reduce demand s on healthcare services quickly. Smoking is the single biggest risk factor for preventable … including causing almost a quarter of deaths among Māori. Smoking also impacts negatively on the economic, social and …
  • Five Strategic Approaches to Achieving the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal

    … in Māori led advocacy to address the harms that tobacco smoking and the tobacco industry cause Māori, led by Māori … the goal, which set a national target of achieving minimal smoking prevalence (widely defined as less than five percent … of its origins, equity considerations and ensuring minimal smoking prevalence is reached for all major population groups …

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