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  • Can oral tobacco and nicotine products help people to stop smoking?

    … have called for further research into their long-term health effects, including their potential to cause nicotine addiction and negatively affect oral health. 4 5 Tobacco companies produce and market several … ASPIRE Aotearoa Research Centre, and Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington  Dr Jude Ball , ASPIRE …
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  • Chewing the fat on a saturated fat tax

    … in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health , we reviewed the meta-analyses on replacing dietary … article strongly indicate this. But it may be that more health gain might be achieved if such taxes were also used to … fat tax could also fund a media education campaign on the health benefits of increasing nut consumption and the …
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  • Warmest New Zealand winter ever recorded – The Government should do more on climate change

    … levels of damage to human civilisation – a public health threat on a scale larger than we usually consider. … book on the ethics of climate change. Fortunately from a health perspective, various actions to reduce greenhouse emissions will have benefits for public health. Some of these actions may even save society money and …
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  • Using a fun “Mask Day” at school to promote pandemic protection in the NZ community

    … lack of support by the NZ Government and the World Health Organization. Our successful elimination of SARS-CoV-2 … mask. Schools as powerful places to spread positive public health messages  Mass masking is a new norm in many non-Asian … transmission in this group; as highlighted by the American Academy of Paediatrics [10]. Esposito et al reason …
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  • Targeting a new generation – time for a greater focus on smoking uptake prevention?

    … 2 3 Furthermore, smokers are greatly impacted by the health harms caused by smoking, as well as by social and … smoking uptake is a priority from a societal and public health perspective, and is necessary to achieve and sustain a … of younger employees. Finally, there is a very strong association between smoking and drinking alcohol. 32-34 …
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  • Getting the Marketing Mix Right: A Commentary on NZ’s Forthcoming Vaping Regulations

    … extend the approach taken in NZ. For several years, public health researchers, parents and school principals have … training in smoking cessation or requirements to provide information about smoking cessation support.  Smokers … products and will provide for much more effective management of the widespread, aggressive marketing that has …
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  • Making tobacco less available is both necessary and feasible – New NZ study

    … in relation to a product range about which the long-term health effects are still largely unknown. Yet the commotion … situation? Tobacco’s wide availability is a major public health problem. Easier access to outlets selling tobacco is … people, meaning tobacco availability is contributing to health inequalities. A 2015 study by ASPIRE 2025 researchers …
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  • How the tobacco industry targets young people to achieve a new generation of smokers

    … tobacco; we discuss their efforts to infiltrate public health agendas while continuing to innovate with smoked … trajectories change dramatically.[6] Most of those whose health and longevity will be harmed by smoking begin using … co-created content.[19-21] One study tracked British American Tobacco (BAT) employees’ use of social media and …
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  • The long-term health burden of COVID-19: further justification for NZ’s elimination strategy

    … pandemic virus, SARS-CoV-2, to zero by a series of public-health interventions and rapid responses to any outbreak. … Symptom Study, which uses an app to collect symptom information from nearly four million users, says that their … 700 patients (mean age 50±18 years; 45% men; 71% African American), there were 9 cardiac arrests, 25 incident atrial …
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  • Nicotine pouches and young people: Evidence from Aotearoa New Zealand

    … replacement therapies. However Associate Minister of Health, Casey Costello, proposes legalising sales of products … as options for people who smoke .” 1 The Ministry of Health advised against this policy, 2 citing a  lack of … youth rather than people who smoke--points also raised by health experts. 3-6 Despite this opposition, Cabinet has …
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