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  • The long shadow of Cyclone Gabrielle: Brief review at 12 months

    … we briefly consider its persisting long shadow in terms of: (i) ongoing disruption to lives and stress from housing … in resilient infrastructure and to support managed retreat of those living in housing that is particularly vulnerable to … Cyclone Gabrielle’s catastrophic deluge caused a trail of destruction to homes, infrastructure, and businesses …
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  • An upgraded Alert Level 2 is urgently needed to address the Delta Variant threat

    … and the system must be updated to address the threat of the highly transmissible Delta variant and future … (Auckland currently at Alert Level 4, with the rest of the country at Alert Level 3) to eliminate community … the highest risk indoor environments closed while the risk of virus circulation is elevated.   Photo by  Anna Tarazevich …
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  • Making tobacco less available is both necessary and feasible – New NZ study

    … In our recently published work, we studied the impact of the NZ Government preventing new retail outlets from … outcome would be a 50% decrease in the total number of tobacco retail outlets by 2032. This blog puts these results into the context of tobacco control options for NZ. Across the globe we’re …
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  • Removing the nicotine from tobacco: The key component of the current Smokefree Bill

    … the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan: denicotinisation of cigarettes and tobacco, large reductions in outlets selling tobacco, and the introduction of a Smokefree Generation policy. In a previous blog we … 2021 summarised the case for denicotinisation as follows: Theory and logic suggests denicotinisation will greatly …
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  • Sustained Resilience: the impact of nuclear war on New Zealand and how to mitigate catastrophe

    … triggered by nuclear war could shift the state of NZ society from one of flourishing to one of mere survival. We detail these risks of societal failure …
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  • Public Health at the Movies: A Selection of 35 Top Movies

    … We have assembled a collection of 35 high quality movies as part of public health teaching for medical students. In this blog post we detail the movies and reflect on some of the aspects that make them both educational and …
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  • Smart party pill law makes tobacco & alcohol regulation look pathetic

    … that tobacco – and for that matter alcohol – with orders of magnitude more harm gets the wet bus ticket regulatory … sorted out by lunch time. Party pills – sales now subject of stringent regulation – in contrast to tobacco and alcohol … Psychoactive Substances Act, which introduces regulation of ‘party pills’, came into force on August 1 st 2013 with …
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  • Divesting from fossil fuels – is this good for public health?

    … are disinvesting, check out the Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 5 th … released on November 2. This sums up the thousands of pages written by three Working Groups on climate sciences, … revolution, one that turns the old model of carbon-heavy development on its head, surely it makes a lot of sense to …
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  • Social contract needed to deliver a 'no BS' public health agenda

    … with little regard to any economic understanding of the true productive resource constraints. Financial and … with little connection to an economic lens, outside of its gratuitous title of Going for Growth . As always, there are claimed …
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  • The case for banning cigarette filters

    … product changes that sustain the appeal and addictiveness of smoked tobacco products. How did filters become an integral component of cigarettes? Cigarettes initially had no filters. … to prevent sore throats” (see Figure below). As the harms of smoking became well-established, 1 2 filters’ role as a …
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