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  • Smoke, heat or vapour? Ideas for risk-proportionate regulation to make World Smokefree Day irrelevant by 2025

    … for the achieving Smokefree Aotearoa 2025. Tobacco and vaping products such as e-cigarettes vary greatly in their … ‘risk-proportionate’ regulation for tobacco and vaping products. This blog discusses public health … as clarifying the appropriate regulatory approaches to vaping products, we see an overwhelming need for much …
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  • Mind the gap: Associate Health Minister’s actions conflict with Ministry advice, align with tobacco industry lobbying

    … , including the commitment to “Reform the regulation of vaping, smokeless tobacco and oral nicotine products…”. NZ … original) Source:  Smokefree 2025: cracking down on youth vaping. Office of the Associate Health Minister. Attached to … tobacco.   Source:  Smokefree 2025: cracking down on youth vaping. Office of the Associate Health Minister. Attached to …
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  • Will liberalising nicotine availability increase quitting?

    … the complex practices smokers must adopt when commencing vaping. We suggest limiting supply of nicotine e-cigarettes … This decision reflects general scientific agreement that vaping (use of e-cigarettes and vaporisers to obtain … when smokers make a full transition from smoking to vaping (1). It also recognises that nicotine e-liquid is …
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  • Media release: Vaping crackdown falls short: Gaps in new bill leave youth at risk

    … The coalition Government is moving to reduce youth vaping with a proposed bill that introduces measures to ban … say if the Government wants to “crackdown” on youth vaping, it must take a more comprehensive approach, including … and promotions such as buy-one-get-one-free could make vaping products less affordable for young people, while still …
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  • What does recent biomarker literature say about the likely harm from e-cigarettes?

    … relative to tobacco smokers. Yet as the situation with vaping is very dynamic (new products, changing ways people … evidence was considered it largely focused on studies of vaping aerosol and e-liquid composition with relatively few … study by Carnevale et al (7)) suggests that the effect of vaping on four other inflammatory markers of likely relevance …
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  • New e-liquid flavour restrictions: Potential impacts on young people and people who smoke

    … Zealand’s Smoke-free Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Act 2020 will restrict the e-liquid … on people who smoke and those who neither smoke nor use vaping products. In May 2018, the District Court ruled that … marketing of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS or vaping products), which quickly became pervasive. Rather than …
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  • In the news: Youth vaping still high in NZ especially among Māori youth

    … Dale Husband on Waatea News about the high rates of youth vaping especially among Māori youth. Speaking about the vaping trends outlined in the Briefing Slight drop in youth vaping but stark ethnic disparities remain , Anaru Waa says …
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  • Media release: Major vaping reforms: Will they deliver on public health aims?

    … June) could mark an important step toward reducing youth vaping in Aotearoa New Zealand, but public health experts say … is an important move. It is likely to reduce uptake of vaping among young people and will also support people who are trying to quit vaping,” says Dr Ball.  She says ending the sale of …
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  • Tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food - where the parties stand: Election 2023

    … of results is shown in the table below. Tobacco and vaping The current Labour Government, under Health Minister … as catch-up legislation to try to halt the explosion of vaping outlets and rapid rise in youth vaping. Tobacco and vaping policies received the broadest …
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  • Parliamentary voting for smokefree over two decades: Implications for future progress

    … smokefree policies, three on tobacco taxation and one on vaping policies (see Appendix ). The final two were the 2022 … which introduced policies on smoked tobacco products and vaping and the 2024 repeal of key smokefree aspects of the … National also supported the Labour-led Government’s 2020 vaping regulation and smokefree cars bills. However, most of …
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