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  • Will the Government’s new Smokefree Plan achieve Aotearoa’s smokefree goal?

    … than two months before the government’s own target for a Smokefree 2025 becomes due, it has released an “action … and persisting smoking inequities first advocated for a Tupeka Kore (tobacco free) Aotearoa. 4   Since the 1980s, Aotearoa’s   action on tobacco control had involved a mix of mostly demand-reduction focused population level …
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  • Alcohol-related harms now available on demand

    … online have been expanding globally, with alcohol being a relatively new commodity to be sold in this way in … had drunk alcohol in the past year with 21% drinking in a hazardous way . 6 7 Māori, Pacific peoples, those living in … delivery services, and widespread access. 11 For example, a 2019 Australian study 12 showed that nearly 70% of …
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  • Lime E-Scooters – Avoiding a collision course with public health?

    … an app, locate an e-scooter using the app map, and unlock a device they would like to use by scanning a QR code on the e-scooter they wish to ride. In New Zealand, users pay $1 to hire the e-scooter and 30 cents a minute, or around $18 an hour . The Lime website states: “ …
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  • New Zealand doing okay in cancer survival: Results from the largest ever cross-national comparison of cancer survival

    … combined analysis (CONCORD-2). Never before has such a comparable set of survival estimates been available. And … first thing that stands out is that survival in the UK is often lowest – an embarrassing statistic from the UK’s … Interestingly, this gap in survival was usually achieved after just one-year post-diagnosis, pointing to the …
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  • New proposals to limit youth vaping from Labour: Do they go far enough?

    … Summary The Labour Party has released a factsheet outlining plans to “crack down” on youth vaping. Proposals include introducing a licensing scheme, increasing the penalties that people … governments been so slow to recognise youth vaping as a problem and how effective will Labour’s proposed new …
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  • Smoke, heat or vapour? Ideas for risk-proportionate regulation to make World Smokefree Day irrelevant by 2025

    … the new regulatory framework, and proposes key features of a risk-proportionate approach. We argue the framework should … tobacco product.  The product in question was ‘HEETS’, a tobacco heat stick designed for use with the ‘IQOS’ … containing nicotine, to create an aerosol.] There is a strong case, from a public health perspective, to introduce …
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  • What will the Government’s free vape starter kit programme achieve?

    … assuming the overall population size remained the same, a smoking prevalence of under 5% in 2025 would mean fewer … per year overall. Note To reach the goal will require a very large increase in quitting, over and above these … calculations also need to account for relapse to smoking after three months. A recent study investigated relapse rates …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Achieving a Smokefree Aotearoa

    … reduce smoking prevalence : mandated denicotinisation and a reduction in tobacco retailer s. We do not consider the … and opportunities .    Most health impacts occur after many years or decades of smoking. However, stopping … the main reason smoking is highly addictive and quitting often so difficult.  Numerous studies , including from …
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  • Embracing downward counterfactual analysis to navigate future cyclones

    … should be conducted for other disasters to better inform a wider range and depth of future disaster mitigation … to up to $14.5 billion. 4 In this Briefing we apply a relatively novel process to examine this disaster – … considering hypothetical scenarios in which the outcome of a disaster event is imagined to be worse than what actually …
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  • Tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food - where the parties stand: Election 2023

    … Summary The results of a Health Coalition Aotearoa survey of political parties on … These three harmful products are responsible for almost a third of Aotearoa New Zealand’s health burden and demand … making sure tobacco isn’t sold at all to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009. We are proud to lead the world in …
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