Tagged: Nicotine

Will liberalising nicotine availability increase quitting? - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Apr 24, 2017 •

• e-cigarette,
• e-cigs,
• Nicotine,
• Smoking,
• smoking cessation,
• tobacco

Prof Janet Hoek, Mei-Ling Blank, Prof Nick Wilson, Lindsay Robertson, Dr Louise Marsh Do the New Zealand (NZ) Government’s proposed changes to liberalise the e-cigarette market set out a robust process for helping people who smoke to switch to e-cigarettes? In this blog, we discuss the proposed regulatory changes and explain some of the complex practices smokers must adopt … Read More

E-cigarettes to have legal market in NZ, experts cautious - News

John Kerr • Mar 29, 2017 •

• e-cigarettes,
• Ministry of Health,
• Nicotine,
• regulations,
• Smoking,
• tobacco,
• vaping

The Government has announced new regulations to allow nicotine containing electronic cigarettes to be sold in New Zealand. Currently e-cigarette devices can be sold in New Zealand but nicotine-containing e-liquid can not (nicotine is a scheduled substance under the Medicines Act), although consumers can purchase e-liquid from overseas for personal use. That is set to change with announcement of … Read More

Perspective: Options for licensed retailing of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes in NZ - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Sep 08, 2016 •

• e-cigarettes,
• Nicotine,
• Pharmacy,
• Smoking,
• tobacco,
• vape shops,
• vaping

Professor Nick Wilson, Professor Janet Hoek, Frederieke Sanne van der Deen, Associate Professor George Thomson, Professor Richard Edwards The NZ Ministry of Health is currently consulting on options around making nicotine-containing e-cigarettes available in NZ. This Perspective Blog briefly examines possible pros and cons of two plausible licensed retail options: pharmacies and vape shops. It also highlights … Read More

On being a test bunny: Part I - misc.ience

Aimee Whitcroft • Jan 20, 2011 •

• Addiction,
• clinical trial,
• Nicotine,
• patch,
• Smoking,
• spray,
• tar,
• Zonnic

I’ve never been part of a clinical trial, until now. Medical test bunny aimee I smoke.  I’ve been a moderate to heavy, (and very happy), smoker for about 8 years.  Which habit has resulted, variously, in: a couple of fillings; blood pressure that’s gone from being so low I used to be … Read More

Why New Zealand smokers suck the most (infographic) - Visibly Shaken

Peter Griffin • Jun 21, 2010 •

• cancer,
• Nicotine,
• Smoking,
• tar,
• tobacco

The New Zealand Herald today carried news of interesting research by the tobacco industry which suggests New Zealand smokers have a penchant for cigarettes higher in nicotine than smokers across the Tasman. The Herald adds: The results come from a tobacco industry study… also found New Zealand smokers are exposed to the greatest average amount of tar out … Read More

Candy for Adults - MacDoctor

Jim McVeagh • Apr 17, 2010 •

• Addiction,
• Drug Addiction,
• e-cigarette,
• Nicotine,
• Quit Smoking,
• research,
• Sciblogs,
• Smoking

Remember those candy cigarettes we could buy as kids (now long ago done to death by the nannies)? I see there has been some fuss in the Herald about the adult equivalent, the so-called e-cigarette. The e-cigarette is an electronic device made to look like a cigarette that nebulises a dose of nicotine from a [...] Related posts: … Read More