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  • Government struggling with evidence: HTPs, addiction levels, and Smokefree 2025

    … The Government recently halved the excise tax on heated tobacco products. Associate Health Minister Casey Costello … there is no robust, independent evidence to support heated tobacco products as smoking cessation tools. Nor does the … Earlier this year, the Coalition Government repealed tobacco endgame measures that would have substantially …
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  • Media release: Aotearoa’s smokefree setback offers a warning for countries advancing tobacco control

    … to non-addictive levels, drastically cut the number of tobacco retailers, and created a smokefree generation by … of ASPIRE Aotearoa. “It’s a textbook example of how tobacco industry-style arguments can derail bold public … health action.” The analysis published in the BMJ journal Tobacco Control found that:  Government MPs claimed Aotearoa …
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  • What does recent biomarker literature say about the likely harm from e-cigarettes?

    … in e-cigarette users (vapers) are compared to those from tobacco smokers. The results are highly variable but all suggest lower levels of risk to vapers relative to tobacco smokers. Yet as the situation with vaping is very … all suggest lower levels of risk for vapers compared to tobacco smokers. In particular, the risk associated with …
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  • Lessons from Canada for NZ: Carbon, Cycling, Tobacco, Nutrition and Cannabis

    … to climate change; (ii) supporting cycling; (iii) tobacco control; (iv) controls on food marketing directed at … Canada is proposing to expand such a scheme, as used in British Colombia (BC), to other provinces. In the proposed … cigarette sales and total cigarettes sales, compared to British Columbia where there was no provincial menthol ban” …
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  • Optimising the effects of plain packaging for tobacco – making Quitline information more salient

    … Given plain packaging of tobacco products will likely increase the tension many … passes legislation bringing plain, or standardised, tobacco packaging into effect, policy makers will need to … the Act, namely to: Discourage smoking uptake and use of tobacco products, Encourage smoking cessation, Support …
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  • Good news on declining smoking rates, especially for Māori. Is it credible? What next?

    … new results seem credible given the decline in national tobacco sales (from 2.52 million kg in 2006 to 2.07 million … with the international evidence that various forms of tobacco control are effective at the community level – … of the international literature, are as follows: Increase tobacco tax by at least 10% per annum (as currently used in …
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  • The end game should not be just Smokefree 2025 but also Vapefree

    … Peoples (UNDRIP) and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. But despite smoking rates falling since the … that vaping is much less harmful than smoking burned tobacco and this evidence has been discussed at length by … both proponents of vaping (3) and its opponents (4). Big tobacco knows what it’s doing! The big tobacco companies have …
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  • Perspective: Options for licensed retailing of nicotine-containing E-Cigarettes in NZ

    … widely available requires an analysis of how combustible tobacco needs further controls at the retail level (as … supermarkets, petrol stations, liquor stores etc) to sell tobacco . This model has resulted in over 6000 outlets … with the law, a 2006 survey found that 64% of tobacco retailers had at least one breach of the then …
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  • Patterns of declining smoking in NZ – But more action needed by the New Government

    … to quitting). A range of factors including specific tobacco control activity, as well general social changes that … may account for reductions in prevalence. Of the tobacco control activities, the key ones probably include the following: Ongoing tobacco tax increases (e.g. see this NZ modelling work …
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  • Tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food - where the parties stand: Election 2023

    … survey of political parties on the priority prevention for tobacco, alcohol, unhealthy food and public health … its top prevention priorities for reducing harm from tobacco, alcohol, and unhealthy food and strengthening public … The summary of results is shown in the table below. Tobacco and vaping The current Labour Government, under …
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