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… gap’ is through modelling studies that anticipate how smoking behaviour may change due to increasing cost of … that ready access to tobacco retailers influences both smoking initiation and limits successful smoking cessation (e.g., for youth smoking , adult smoking , …

… strategies that may accelerate the reduction in smoking prevalence (ie, ‘tobacco endgame strategies’). We … Government announced a goal of achieving minimal levels of smoking and tobacco availability by 2025 (1). There has been … even with yearly tobacco tax increases until 2020, daily smoking rates among Māori may still be as high as 17% by 2025 …

… that with these additional four years of tax increases smoking prevalence in 2020 will be 21.4% for Māori and to … most effective tool used by governments to prevent tobacco smoking uptake and reduce smoking rates – while benefiting population health and …

… seem preferable to allow vaping in some settings where smoking is not permitted; such a measure could encourage … relatively more attractive as it is allowed where tobacco smoking is not. Indeed, vapers themselves have voiced the … benefit of “normalisation” of vaping, relative to smoking, when arguing against any bans on public vaping (3). …

… too slow. We need to do much more, particularly to reduce smoking among Māori and Pacific peoples [1-3]. That said, smoking prevalence among adults is decreasing (Table 1), and … : between 2011 and 2017 the prevalence of regular smoking among Year 10 Māori children reduced from 18% to 11% …

… when Māori leaders concerned about large and persisting smoking inequities first advocated for a Tupeka Kore (tobacco … cessation support. While these approaches had reduced smoking prevalence, they had done so relatively slowly and with insufficient impact on smoking inequities, 5 particularly for Māori. Nonetheless, …

… that extends existing regulation of tobacco and herbal smoking products to vaping products (or electronic nicotine … goal of supporting smokers and encouraging switching from smoking to regulated products that pose fewer risks. Section … 22 recognises the need to reduce social approval of smoking, and discourage use of vaping and tobacco products …

… in health are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco smoking, but quantifying this is surprisingly difficult. In … And “How much are these inequalities due to tobacco smoking?” are important questions for policy-makers. The … up of each of the 1981, 1996 and 2006 censuses.  For smoking, we used the simple current, ex and never …

… to smokers who wish to use them to help them stop smoking or as substitutes for cigarettes.  It has been … customers will need to trial vaping devices). As with smoking, local authorities will be able to designate … CBD areas smoke-free to protect young people from seeing smoking practices modelled by others. 3 These regulations …

… generations to come will be protected from addiction to smoking. In this Briefing, we contrast differing policy … Tobacco) Amendment Act. Designed to help people quit smoking and deter smoking uptake, this legislation introduced three new …