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  • Smoking and vaping among 14 to 15 year olds: Government action urgently needed

    …  and the proportion who both vape and smoke daily (i.e. dual users) based on ASH Year 10 data from 2019 , 2021 , … show that 58,694 of Y10 students have never smoked (i.e., 87.8% of the 66,850 Y10 students) while 802 Y10 students smoke each day (i.e., 1.2% of Y10 students). Even if only a small proportion of …
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  • What does the EY Tobacco Excise Tax Evaluation Report mean for reaching the Smokefree 2025 Goal?

    … strong social justice and equity case for hypothecation i.e. since tobacco excise taxes can impose a financial burden … goal. There is growing consensus based on survey data (e.g. from the NZ Health Survey ) and modelling studies [8, 9] … transitioning fully to reduced risk products such as e-cigarettes. The Report notes that the latter should be …
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  • The Government’s transport plans work against our health

    … (see Figure 1 below). 1 Transport can both improve health (e.g. by facilitating access employment and healthcare) and cause significant harm (e.g. through air pollution exposure). These benefits and … always increases their overall amount of activity (i.e. not substituted from physical activity elsewhere). 20 …
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  • Highlights of the World Conference on Tobacco or Health

    … that the industry’s predictions of dire consequences (e.g. on boosting illicit trade, reducing the price of … of children and young people more. Another major theme was e-cigarettes. Once again there was lively debate about their … these areas of possible consensus include the following: E-cigarettes are a phenomenon which appear to be here to stay …
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  • Reducing tobacco retail availability: how could this be achieved and what evidence supports the NZ Government’s proposals?

    … that stop selling tobacco tend to be hospitality venues (e.g. restaurants, bars, clubs) where tobacco sales were … 95%) is required to drive up the ‘full cost’ of tobacco (i.e., the time and resources needed to obtain the product) … that tobacco retailer density is reduced sufficiently (i.e., to the point where it affects behaviour) in the most …
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  • Progress on reducing retail availability of sugary drinks in NZ

    … fruit juices, flavoured milk and diet soft drinks (e.g., Waikato DHB ). For schools a survey in 2015 apparently … evaluate the impact of SSB removal from schools (e.g., on oral health). In the meantime, however, it would … and inadequately addressing the role of the food industry (e.g., “Partnership with Industry”, and “Marketing and …
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  • Social Marketing for Smokefree Aotearoa 2025: Reminding, Reinforcing, and Changing Social Norms

    … also questions attitudes that condone smoking in cars (e.g. “I don’t do it often, so it can’t be too bad”), thus … these campaigns recognise that individual dispositions (e.g. expectations about smoking) and interactions with environments (e.g. role modelling and social norms) will shape smoking …
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  • Vaccination is often cost-effective but not (currently) HPV vaccination for boys in NZ

    … vaccination on a wide range of future health outcomes (i.e., cervical cancer, pre-cancer (CIN I to III), genital … not funding interventions that achieve more health gain (i.e. inefficient resource allocation, or more bluntly not … at ways to lower the vaccination delivery cost in schools (e.g., combining at least one dose with the DTP booster given …
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  • Glass half full: Alcohol’s health benefits for cardiovascular disease still controversial, and likely vary by context

    … than this. Binge drinking is deleterious regardless (e.g. injury), and should be differentiated from ‘average’ … hold for alcohol-related cancers, of which there are many (e.g. esophageal and breast cancer), but rather increase … is highly health damaging, especially at younger ages (e.g. assaults and car crashes). And it is often a major cause …
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  • Possible strategic approaches to achieve the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

    … of existing ‘mainstream’ best practice tobacco control e.g., enhanced mass media, extensions to smokefree policies, … tobacco control interventions from around the world e.g., plain packaging, banning additives and a minimum retail … general view is that higher increases in tobacco taxes (e.g., 20% annually) could be justified but only if …
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