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  • Ten things we can learn from new smoking and vaping data about progress to Smokefree Aotearoa 2025

    … goal is not yet clear. Introduction This blog provides a summary of some key points from the 2018-19 NZ Health … to be achieved for Māori, and is likely to be missed by a very large margin. Figure 2: Daily smoking among Māori … in quit rates by ethnicity and socio-economic status. After some initial promising reductions in uptake among young …
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  • The health impacts of the First World War for NZ: A Review

    … health impacts. Impact for military personnel who left NZ A summary of the health impacts for military personnel who … kept dying from war-related causes for many years after the end of the war. Such deaths were because of their … of military personnel from the whole war (including deaths after the armistice) 18,166 Still not counted in this total …
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  • Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation

    … and smoking cessation well-designed? We were involved in a study published in last Friday’s NZ Medical Journal that tried to answer that question from a NZ public health perspective. In this blog we discuss what … price signals (e.g., tobacco tax increases [2,3]) and a healthier food environment (prices, marketing controls, and …
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  • Good news on declining smoking rates, especially for Māori. Is it credible? What next?

    … what else could be done to accelerate progress towards a smokefree nation.   Statistics New Zealand has released … current smokers on Census night in March of 2013.  That is a fall in the absolute number of smokers of 22.6% since 2006 … growth in the adult population between censuses, that is a 24.4% fall (or a 4.4 percentage point fall) in the smoking …
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  • Smoking prevalence and trends: important findings from the 2023-24 New Zealand Health Survey

    … were released on 19 November. For the first time in a decade, the prevalence of daily smoking did not decline in … living in the most deprived areas, we will not reach a daily smoking prevalence of less than 5% for all population … of 'current smoking' defined as smoking monthly or more often. The figures below show trends in current smoking over …
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  • The case for tobacco supply restrictions

    … selling tobacco.  Retail supply restrictions are both a logical component of policies that will achieve a tobacco-free New Zealand by 2025, and what the majority of … which we can access them, is also very important.  Nearly a century ago, Robert Woodruff, chairman of the Coca-Cola …
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  • Why don’t we live as long and healthily as we could: social values and decision making

    … even provide free mass treatment to middle age people with a sprinkling of aspirin and lipid lowering drugs – all in just one tablet a day.  So why don’t we do this? Many reasons, not least of … with absolute power.  And more substantively, we live in a society with social values that are not just about …
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  • Where do the parties stand? – Introducing our election series

    … In the lead-up to the election, we will be publishing a series of articles analysing political party responses to … inequity, and transport.  He hauora te taonga   Health is a treasure. Good health and wellbeing is one of the most … families/whānau, the people around us, and the nation as a whole. Health is not just about hospitals and doctors, what …
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  • Health co-benefits need to be adequately considered in the Climate Change Commission’s final advice

    … from its economic analyses, which currently predict a reduction in GDP of 0.2-1.0% in 2035 and 0.3-0.7% in 2050. … Government made incremental improvements by acknowledging a broader range of evidence on the health co-benefits of … products were omitted. One NZ modelling study estimated a population shift towards plant-based diets could result in …
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  • A 100 years ago: The worst year of the First World War for New Zealand

    … the worst year of the First World War for New Zealand from a premature mortality perspective, with 5547 deaths. We have just presented on this topic at a Symposium at Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa … evacuation processes could have meant more wounded dying after initial medical attention. There were also military …
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