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  • Do people who smoke make truly informed choices?

    … do no more than ensure people are aware of the dangers—a goal some argue has already been achieved. But what does … know the dangers of smoking. Tobacco companies have often promoted this argument, 1 despite spending decades … on future risks. Any later reflections are undermined by cognitive heuristics and few, if any, make anything like a …
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  • What will it take to get to under 5% smoking prevalence 2025? Lots of cessation.

    … Professor Tony Blakely The New Zealand Government has a goal of a Smokefree Nation by 2025, often interpreted as a smoking prevalence of less than 5% by … or increases the marginal quit rate from 10% to (say) 11% after six months, this is only going to be a small part of …
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  • Google Street View – A Useful Research Tool?

    … Google Street View can be amusing – as with the image of a cow with its face blurred out by Google’s algorithm for … ). But this tool can help with research – as we report in a just published review in the journal “Tobacco Control”. In … shade provision in childrens’ playgrounds. But GSV is often only able to show features of parks and playgrounds …
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  • A 100 years ago today – the likely first NZ death from the 1918 influenza pandemic

    … died from pandemic influenza was Robert Gordon Torrance, a 25-year-old soldier located in France. He officially “died … this study for deaths in the preceding year [4].   Shortly after signs of the pandemic were appearing in Western Europe, … rates, possibly related to immunological impacts from infection in a preceding 1889-92 influenza pandemic [11]. The …
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  • Fighting cold, damp housing – a big tick for Warmer Kiwi programme

    … households improve when they their homes are insulated and a heat pump installed. The study’s results relate to: … inefficient heaters with heat pumps on people’s lives: After a heat pump was installed, living areas of study houses … to hospital for respiratory illness over two times more often than people from the wealthiest areas. 6 Because Māori …
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  • The Government’s transport plans work against our health

    … The policies outlined in the draft GPS 2024 are, as a package, likely to worsen the already high levels of … health harms in the short and long term.  Transport is a major determinant of health in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) … physical activity is associated with reductions in cognitive decline (40% reduction), risk for type 2 diabetes …
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  • Ireland leads New Zealand in the battle against obesity

    … the Irish Government is planning on obesity and food – a far cry from the state of play in New Zealand. Which has … 2 nd test match in 2012 where the ABs narrowly won with a drop kick minutes before the end, and the second was late last year in Dublin when the ABs won by a margin of just 2 points. Optimistic Irish rugby fans are …
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  • Parliamentary voting for smokefree over two decades: Implications for future progress

    … Summary  The recent repeal of a key law to reduce the enormous health and economic burden from tobacco in Aotearoa NZ is a health, health equity, and economic tragedy. It occurred … the sale of smoked tobacco products to anyone born on or after January 1, 2009​. Ayes: 76 Labour: 64; Green: 10;  Te …
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  • Social advantage associated with greenhouse emissions from transport in Aotearoa

    … information is essential to design good policy and achieve a fair transition to a low carbon transport system. We found high levels of … by mode of travel and deprivation (NZDep quintile)   Even after adjusting for age, household size, and disability …
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  • Major vaping reforms: Will they deliver on public health aims?

    … to quit vaping. However, industry non-compliance poses a major threat, and key regulatory gaps still require urgent … of 16-19 year olds who vaped used disposable vapes most often, and an additional 16% used ‘multiple products’ likely … (disposable) vape products. 18   However, in 2022 (well after disposable vapes became widely available), fewer than …
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