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  • New standardised packaging regulations: Some good steps, but many missed opportunities

    … The new regulations constrain stick length (these may be no less than 7mm and no greater than 9mm in diameter, and … toxic product. The new regulations require cigarettes to be cylindrical with flat ends; this requirement means … reductions in pack attractiveness. Foil linings must also be fixed inside the pack (thus disallowing the pull out foil …
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  • The 5000 annual deaths caused by smoking also matter

    … that, because people have “chosen” to smoke, they should be accountable for the outcomes their choice brings. 6,7 NZ … risks or understand what experiencing those risks would be like. 8 Second, once people become addicted to nicotine, … 11 Smoking driven by the need to satiate cravings cannot be described as a free choice. Third, a large majority of …
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  • Protecting Whānau Ora: Why long-term relationships matter for child health

    … can effectively codesign and micro-adapt interventions to be most relevant and acceptable for whānau. Implications for … practice Service commissioning (and contracting) needs to be iterative and flexible to allow providers to develop … care. Child and youth health services are likely to be more relevant and acceptable when they include codesign by …
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  • Cycling and walking in six NZ cities: Where are we at?

    … repeating it regularly and tracking changes over time will be valuable. It will tell us which cities are doing well (or … levels in the largest NZ cities. We anticipate it will be useful for advocates, policy-makers, researchers and … of transforming our cities. But crucially it will need to be repeated regularly so progress towards more liveable and …
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  • Social Marketing for Smokefree Aotearoa 2025: Reminding, Reinforcing, and Changing Social Norms

    … smoking in cars (e.g. “I don’t do it often, so it can’t be too bad”), thus enabling communication of an alternative … and encourage quitting among established smokers can be highly effective. Young people who had high exposure to … also show their impact and suggest approaches that could be used successfully in the future, for example, a “by Māori, …
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  • High regret among people who smoke reinforces strong support for smokefree legislation

    … of people who smoke, the vast majority of whom wish to be smokefree. Public support for smokefree policies has … regulation of tobacco. 5 Even people who smoke, who might be expected to oppose these measures, were more likely to … [sic] in the voices of actual smokers who would be made miserable under a prohibitionist tobacco regime”.   …
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  • The case for banning cigarette filters

    … smoking, is darkened, the tip is automatically judged to be effective. While the use of such colour change material … mountains . 15-18 This environmental contamination should be of concern to all countries and has particular salience to … such as changes in tobacco product design, will be far more effective in reducing the environmental burden of …
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  • Long COVID: Century-old Lessons We Still Have Not Learned

    … years experienced a newly incident condition that could be attributable to previous COVID-19 11 . The risks were … of long COVID published to date. However, they have to be regarded as a lower bound of the burden of these long-term … to the subsequent burden of long COVID; this is likely to be low but not likely to be zero. For instance, in a study of …
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  • Front-of-pack nutrition labels improve understanding but don’t improve healthy food choices; Starlight Trial just published

    … potential reasons for these findings. First, there may be genuinely no effect of FOPL or HSR on consumer choice. … is parallel evidence ( here and here ) – that this will be the major mode of impact of HSR or TLL. That is, whilst … of New Zealanders – the (big) impact is likely to be by food industry reformulation of packaged foods to have …
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  • Avoidable hospitalisations: Helping our health system get through COVID-19

    … time of COVID-19, when every significant effort needs to be made to reduce health system stresses and make the system … that would give immediate help for hospital services would be a maximum 90km speed limit on all non-motorway roads … (lower where necessary). Larger speed-camera penalties may be a quick way to help enforce this. Other indirect …
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