Tagged: Medicines Act

Is Vaping Legal? Eric Crampton on the SmokeFree Environments Act - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Apr 16, 2018 •

• Fairfax papers,
• legal,
• Medicines Act,
• Ministry of Health,
• Nicky Wagner,
• Nicotine,
• oral tobacco,
• packagin,
• SFEA,
• SmokeFree Environments Act,
• vaping

The Fairfax papers have a good summary out today of what’s going on in vaping – as of a month ago. They write: When British public health experts first said vaping (using e-cigarettes) poses only a fraction of the health risk of tobacco smoking, the trend surged in popularity around the world, including in New Zealand. But it remains illegal … Read More

New Zealand should not regulate naturopaths - Honest Universe

Mark Hanna • Aug 28, 2017 •

• Health and Medicine,
• Health Practitioners,
• Medicines Act,
• naturopaths,
• pseudoscience,
• regulation

Naturopaths can kill, but regulating them is not the answer. Over the weekend, the Sunday Star Times published an article by Simon Maude on an unnamed naturopath whose inept attempts at cancer treatment led to the death of an Auckland woman last year: Naturopathy under microscope after cancer sufferers speak from under shadow of death At … Read More