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  • Smoke, heat or vapour? Ideas for risk-proportionate regulation to make World Smokefree Day irrelevant by 2025

    … 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% …
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  • Will the Government’s new Smokefree Plan achieve Aotearoa’s smokefree goal?

    … 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, …
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  • Getting the Marketing Mix Right: A Commentary on NZ’s Forthcoming Vaping Regulations

    … 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 …
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  • How much of Māori:European mortality inequalities are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco?

    … 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 …
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  • Proposed vaping regulations for NZ: Strengths and limitations

    … 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 …
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  • World moving forward on the smokefree generation - Aotearoa NZ goes backwards

    … 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 …
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  • Possible strategic approaches to achieve the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

    … modelling work has explored business-as-usual trends in smoking prevalence, and the potential roles of interventions … indicate that tobacco control is succeeding in reducing smoking prevalence in NZ. There is also widespread support by … among smokers) (6). But the current downward trend in smoking prevalence is very unlikely to get us to the NZ …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: Perspectives from young people

    … While age restriction policies have helped reduce youth smoking, they have not eliminated inequities or provided … Māori students reported regular (i.e., at least monthly) smoking, compared with only 2.7% of their NZ European peers. 3 Furthermore, evidence that smoking prevalence rises rapidly among 18-24 year olds …
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  • Media release: Free vape kits won’t deliver Smokefree 2025 goal

    … ‘starter’ kits will help fewer than 500 people to quit smoking, according to new analysis from public health … offers free vape kits through 24 Te Whatu Ora-funded stop smoking services across the country.   Research Fellow Calvin … than 1% of the more than 82,000 who would need to stop smoking to reach the Smokefree 2025 goal.    “While the …
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  • The Smokefree legislation is evidence-based, removing it is not

    … - runs directly contrary to evidence and will ensure smoking continues to cost thousands of lives and millions of … leadership by retaining legislation that will end the smoking epidemic. The new coalition government has set out … year, 5000 New Zealanders die from diseases caused by smoking.  Modelling suggests that the new legislation would …
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