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  • Consumer Care Guidelines for electricity retailers must be mandatory

    … six basic amenities that we agree are required for housing in Aotearoa. 1 The most serious health outcome of energy … or risking falls or not being able to participate fully in education by going without lighting. There is a tension in using a market structure to provide an essential service – …
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  • High regret among people who smoke reinforces strong support for smokefree legislation

    … strong support for denicotinisation , large reductions in tobacco availability, and the smokefree generation policy. In this briefing, we draw together findings from different … to estimate public support for the measures contained in the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products …
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  • Perspective: Options for licensed retailing of nicotine-containing E-Cigarettes in NZ

    … around making nicotine-containing e-cigarettes available in NZ. Therefore, this Perspective Blog briefly examines … given consecutive NZ Governments’ poor track record in making policy to regulate addictive substances and reduce … to allow nicotine-containing e-cigarettes to be sold in New Zealand [ see here ].* It appropriately covers many …
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  • Urgent action needed to help eliminate cervical cancer in Aotearoa

    … problem. Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) committed to this goal in 2020. Four years on, NZ has made some great strides but is … these three things, cervical cancer will be eliminated in NZ within the lifetime of today’s children.  NGOs, … cancer and help create a future where almost no one in NZ dies from this now preventable cancer. Eliminating …
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  • (Un)licensed to kill: do we need to regulate how tobacco is sold?

    …   Example of a tobacco free retailer in Northland (Source: Northern Advocate) Two recent articles … by Aspire2025 researchers have explored how tobacco sales in New Zealand could be more effectively regulated. The first … 2013 could inform tobacco supply policies (both published in the NZ Medical Journal, 1 April 2016). This blog overviews …
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  • Covid-19 was no black swan, but a paradigmatic black elephant

    … In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, everybody now knows … The world ignored all these warnings SARS-CoV-2 emerged in 2019 with dire consequences The fact that all these … tend to overlook. As if to drive this point home, I noted in the news today that a resident of Westport (a New Zealand …
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  • After the new law for smokefree cars for Kiwi kids, what next?

    … of the Smoke-free Environments (Prohibiting Smoking in Motor Vehicles Carrying Children) Amendment Act last week. … long journey and explore future smokefree possibilities in Aotearoa / New Zealand. A law providing smokefree cars for … It is over 45 years since the first smokefree places law in the world, 1 over 35 years after there was clear evidence …
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  • New Zealand E-cigarette trial in Lancet – keeping it in perspective

    … Zealand randomized trial of e-cigarettes just published in the prestigious Lancet journal has been touted in the media as showing how good e-cigarettes are for people … the study find?  No statistically significant difference in abstinence at 6 months.   21 out of 289 people randomised …
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  • The Two-Faced Tobacco Industry: Transformation and Cigarillos

    … product fits with PMI’s vision of a smoke-free future? In this blog we explore that question and explain why policy … with one study finding they ranked only slightly higher in trust than used-car salespeople. 1 Legal settlements … companies have become regarded as corporate sociopaths. In United States v. Philip Morris USA, Inc. et al., a …
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  • The Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill – a chance to submit on pivotal legislation for health in Aotearoa

    … Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill was introduced into Parliament in October 2021 and a submission process is now underway with … New Zealand Health and Disability Act 2000 and will result in a major restructuring of the health sector which will take effect in July 2022. This will introduce institutional and …
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