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  • World moving forward on the smokefree generation - Aotearoa NZ goes backwards

    … Summary In early March 2024, the government repealed measures in the Smokefree … proposed and adopted this policy, thus ensuring children for generations to come will be protected from addiction to … PM Luxon a trivial non-event, jurisdictions implementing only the SFG policy will need to differentiate between people …
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  • The allure of a Virtual Supermarket for public health nutrition research

    … the question – what is the allure of a virtual supermarket for public health nutrition research? Testing food pricing … foods, we increase the price, “problem solved”. If only it was that simple. Apart from any practical concerns, … could well imagine themselves doing real shopping. This makes sense as evidence from other fields has shown that …
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  • New e-liquid flavour restrictions: Potential impacts on young people and people who smoke

    … Products (Vaping) Amendment Act 2020 will restrict the e-liquid flavours available at generic retail outlets, … the promotion and advertising of tobacco products used for chewing or other oral use. This ruling resulted in … on ENDS users. Further, the flavour restrictions apply only to generic retailers, full flavour ranges will still be …
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  • The need for an expanded national smokefree law – just got more critical

    … A just released Judicial Review has opened up the question of how “open areas” of buildings (where smoking … implications of this ruling and why it heightens the need for an expanded national law on smokefree areas. This … a calculator in the first place – since this meant that only experts could determine when the law was being followed …
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  • Urgent action needed to help eliminate cervical cancer in Aotearoa

    … Summary For the first time, the World Health Organization (WHO) has set an … to achieving elimination.  Cervical screening is the only cancer screening programme that is not fully funded in …
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  • Smokefree outdoor areas: A missing part of Government’s new Smokefree 2025 proposals

    … Smokefree outdoor areas are not ‘business-as-usual’ for New Zealand. Current efforts for such areas are rarely … Smokefree 2025 proposals, but needing a vital addition The NZ Government is to be congratulated with its recent … smokefree outdoor policies are largely unenforceable, with only a few areas on public land covered by council licence …
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  • Meat, health, hospitals, and sustainability*

    … increasingly in the news. In this blog, I look at the case for reducing the amount of meat in hospital meals and gently … all: Loma Linda University Hospital in California serves only vegetarian food and is ranked as the number one hospital … for mitigating and adapting to climate change ― and makes a policy recommendation to reduce meat consumption [7]. …
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  • 6 teaspoons of sugar a day helps the diseases stay down, in a most challenging way

    … Here comes the next big battle in nutrition: SUGAR. Yesterday, the World … out their widely anticipated guidelines on sugar intake for consultation. In this blog, we review some of the … published just a couple of weeks ago in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), goes one step further. …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: A core measure in New Zealand’s endgame strategy

    … mandated very low nicotine cigarettes, large reductions in the number of outlets selling tobacco, and the introduction … (thus removing the incentive to smoke and the reward for having done so), will rapidly reduce smoking … adulthood.[11] More fundamentally, age restrictions may only delay the emergence of ‘replacement smokers’ rather than …
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  • Smokefree cars legislation: Should the new government make this a priority?

    … This blog briefly reviews the case for the prioritisation by the new Government of a … policy expertise, in legal drafting, and in parliamentary time. So why should the government prioritise making cars …
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