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Proposed vaping regulations for NZ: Strengths and limitations
… of prohibitions on advertising and sponsorship from tobacco products to all vaping and smokeless tobacco products, including e-liquids, are important steps. … sections extend provisions that currently apply to smoked tobacco products, to what are now known as “regulated …
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Getting the Marketing Mix Right: A Commentary on NZ’s Forthcoming Vaping Regulations
… passed legislation that extends existing regulation of tobacco and herbal smoking products to vaping products (or electronic nicotine delivery systems [ENDS] and heated tobacco products (HTPs]. The new Act represents an important … approval of smoking, and discourage use of vaping and tobacco products among non-smokers, particularly children and …
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Ethnic inequalities in mortality in NZ and how to reduce them further
… ethnic groups, improving access to health services, tobacco control and addressing the obesogenic environment. … consumption in low-income neighbourhoods (10). Advancing tobacco control: The second most important risk factor causing health loss in NZ is tobacco smoking (7). Our results for ethnic inequalities in …
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Media release: Associate Health Minister’s tobacco policy contradicts official advice, aligns with industry lobbyists
… Associate Health Minister Casey Costello’s recent tobacco policy recommendations conflict with official advice, aligning instead with tobacco lobbyists' talking points, according to an analysis … and allowing the sale of oral nicotine products, including tobacco and nicotine pouches. The details are laid out in a …
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Standardised packaging: A new era in reducing tobacco marketing in NZ
… From today, all tobacco products in New Zealand will start appearing in … the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal. From today, all tobacco products in New Zealand will start appearing in … labels, but none of the brand livery formerly conveyed on tobacco packaging. For decades, tobacco companies have used …
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New standardised packaging regulations: Some good steps, but many missed opportunities
… , but they also miss opportunities to recognise tobacco industry innovations. This blog discusses changes … of smoking has declined. Despite desperate attempts by tobacco companies to manufacture an illicit trade problem, … are important and will undoubtedly curtail some of the tobacco industry’s responses seen in Australia. However, …
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Media release: ‘Zombie arguments’ are being used to justify repealing smokefree
… New Zealand’s smoke-free measures will boost illicit tobacco trade are false according to public health experts. … an increase in a black market have long been touted by the tobacco industry when it sees its products under threat. … , echoed by some media commentators , repeating tobacco industry arguments that measures in smokefree …
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Strengthening tobacco policy: The case for best practice packaging and regulation
… Summary Although tobacco companies strongly opposed the introduction of plain … prevalence declined. Strengthening policies regulating tobacco packaging and product design could further reduce … the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Act 2023 (SERPA), the Government has …
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High regret among people who smoke reinforces strong support for smokefree legislation
… strong support for denicotinisation , large reductions in tobacco availability, and the smokefree generation policy. In … typically been high, and likely bolstered by evidence that tobacco companies have targeted children, 1 and undermined … harms. 2 3 Widely viewed as corporate pariahs, 4 tobacco companies have done little to earn public trust and …
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New Zealand E-cigarette trial in Lancet – keeping it in perspective
… Uncertainty exists about the place of e-cigarettes in tobacco control, and more research is urgently needed to … e-cigarettes may just allow people to keep smoking real tobacco, as they can use e-cigarettes at work and the pub – … likely harm is an order(s) of magnitude less than smoking tobacco. But the balance of harms and benefits is still very …
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