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Progress toward Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 – how might tobacco retail restrictions contribute?
… we briefly consider the results and put the findings in a wider context of how New Zealand might reach its Smokefree … ~6000 retailers nationally (see previous blog for a map) and an average travel time of just over 3 minutes from … strategy (a ban from selling tobacco to those born after a certain year) (11). The sinking lid strategy …
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Retailing of vaping products – New NZ Research
… gains depends on “the extent to which they can act as a route out of smoking for New Zealand’s 550,000 daily smokers”. 6 Retailers could play a helpful role in determining what population health gains are realised, but only if they have a sound knowledge of the products they sell and how …
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Protecting Whānau Ora: Why long-term relationships matter for child health
… Pasifika, disabled, LGBTQ+, rural, and low-income children often experience worse health outcomes due to systemic … commissioners may engage new providers, which risks losing a decade of relationships and engagement built up by current … 11 We found connection and long-term relationships were often the springboard that all other outcomes bounced from …
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Getting the Marketing Mix Right: A Commentary on NZ’s Forthcoming Vaping Regulations
… Section 3A (d) includes among the Act’s overall purposes a goal of supporting smokers and encouraging switching from … will regulate marketing of regulated products (defined as “a tobacco product, vaping product or herbal smoking … (e.g., R18 vape stores) will continue to be able to sell a more diverse flavour range. However, while this measure …
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Media release: Youth vaping -The implications of addiction
… Centre, University of Otago ASPIRE Network researchers and a psychiatrist specialising in youth addiction outline how … delivering high doses of nicotine very rapidly leading to a higher likelihood of addiction. “Nicotine is highly … as the withdrawal kicks in since loss of concentration is a key symptom. There is also evidence of long-term effects of …
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Risk proportionate regulation of nicotine and tobacco products: More rhetoric than reality
… Government, and almost everyone considering how to achieve a Smokefree Aotearoa, agrees that nicotine and tobacco … smoked tobacco and vaping products could be regulated with a risk proportionate approach in Aotearoa New Zealand. Risk … Products Amendment Act 2022 Conclusions Sixty years after the US Surgeon General’s report presented unequivocal …
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Media release: Urgent action needed: Aotearoa must accelerate efforts to eliminate cervical cancer
… on the path to eliminating cervical cancer and help create a future where almost no one in Aotearoa NZ dies from this … and co-authors say we lag behind Australia and need a fully funded, equitable cervical cancer elimination … primary screening and option to self-test last year was a game-changer, barriers to screening still remain. Cervical …
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Slight drop in youth vaping but stark ethnic disparities remain
… that most teens who vape have never smoked regularly, a finding also reflected in results from the ITC Youth and … declines in ‘ever’ and ‘regular’ (monthly or more often) vaping (Fig 1), but, concerningly, daily vaping has … of these inequities are complex, but one likely reason is a greater concentration of vape stores, selling very-low cost …
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Media release: Decades-old nutrition data leave NZ in the dark
… experts are calling on the Government to urgently fund a new National Nutrition Survey (NNS) to provide essential, … poor nutrition resulting in diseases such as diabetes.” A new NNS would benefit not only public health but also the … Industries invested $1 million to develop tools for a new NNS, including a digital dietary recall tool and …
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Climate change and cherry blossom
… 11 (Human Health) in the 5 th IPCC Assessment Report. A commentary on the full chapter is available at the Lancet. … to Alistair on Radio NZ’s Nine to Noon programme just after 9am on Friday 4 Apirl, discussing this report and his … Convention Centre were turned on again at 9.30 pm, but for a while it looked as though this was not the favourable omen …
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