Tagged: smokefree

Retailing of vaping products – New NZ Research - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Nov 07, 2019 •

• e-cigarettes,
• Nicotine,
• smokefree,
• Smoking,
• vaping

Dr Lindsay Robertson, Dr Jerram Bateman, Professor Janet Hoek Members of the public health community hold divergent views on how access to vaping products or electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) products should be arranged. Some believe ENDS should be as widely available as smoked tobacco and argue for liberal access. However, others suggest smoked tobacco should be much less … Read More

Standardised packaging: A new era in reducing tobacco marketing in NZ - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Mar 14, 2018 •

• Cigarette,
• government,
• Health,
• health warnings,
• legislation,
• marketing,
• New Zealand,
• packaging,
• reactance,
• smokefree,
• Smoking,
• wearout

Janet Hoek, Philip Gendall, Richard Edwards, Shayne Nahu, Nick Wilson From today, all tobacco products in New Zealand will start appearing in standardised, or plain, packages. In this blog, we discuss the importance of developing an on-going monitoring and evaluation plan around this intervention. We also explain why communications with smokers – whether on-pack or mass media – must be … Read More

Smokefree cars legislation: Should the new government make this a priority? - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Dec 12, 2017 •

• car,
• legislation,
• New Zealand,
• secondhand smoke,
• smokefree,
• tobacco

George Thomson, Richard Edwards, Richard Jaine, Janet Hoek, Jude Ball, Nick Wilson This blog briefly reviews the case for the prioritisation by the new Government of a law for smokefree cars carrying children. This would demonstrate their commitment to children’s health and well-being, respond to public and smoker opinion, follow official and Parliamentary advice, and fit with the research evidence … Read More

Patterns of declining smoking in NZ – But more action needed by the new government - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Nov 21, 2017 •

• Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025,
• cigarettes,
• quit,
• smokefree,
• Smoking,
• tobacco

By Nick Wilson, Frederieke Sanne van der Deen, Richard Edwards, George Thomson, Anaru Waa, Tony Blakely Just published results from the NZ Health Survey indicate ongoing declines in smoking for Māori and for European New Zealanders. In this blog we comment on the possible reasons for these trends and describe recent work on how progress could be accelerated. The results … Read More

“Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a new Action Plan to achieve our smokefree goal - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Sep 07, 2017 •

• Action Plan – “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025,
• public health,
• smokefree,
• smokefree 2025,
• tobacco

Richard Edwards, Tony Blakely, Chris Cunningham, Frederieke Sanne van der Deen, Zoe Hawke, Janet Hoek, Shayne Nahu, George Thomson, Louise Thornley, Anaru Waa, Nick Wilson A new Action Plan was launched by one of New Zealand’s great tobacco control champions – Dame Tariana Turia – at Parliament on August 2. This blog describes the Plan’s key features and the rationale … Read More

Only eight more years to go to 2025: Time for the NZ Government to step up its tobacco endgame - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Jun 29, 2017 •

• endgame,
• Maori,
• smokefree,
• Smoking,
• tobacco

By Frederieke Sanne van der Deen, Prof Nick Wilson, Dr Christine Cleghorn, Dr Linda Cobiac, Dr Giorgi Kvizhinadze, Dr Nhung Nghiem, Prof Tony Blakely We have eight more years to go until 2025 – the year of the NZ Government’s Smokefree goal. NZ is not on track to achieve this goal, especially not for Māori. In this blog we discuss … Read More

Should Smokefree Indoor Areas = Vapefree Areas? - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Oct 03, 2016 •

• e-cig,
• e-cigarettes,
• smokefree,
• Smoking,
• tobacco,
• tobacco control,
• vaping

Prof Nick Wilson, Prof Janet Hoek, A/Prof George Thomson, Prof Richard Edwards The NZ Ministry of Health is currently reviewing public submissions on options that would allow nicotine-containing e-cigarettes to be sold legally in NZ. This consultation raises questions about how the wider uptake of e-cigarette use (known as “vaping”) will be managed. In this blog, we consider arguments … Read More

A policy and research agenda for roll-your-own tobacco - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Sep 19, 2016 •

• ash,
• roll-your-own,
• smokefree,
• smokefree 2025,
• Smoking,
• tobacco

By Professor Janet Hoek, Professor Karine Gallopel-Morvan, Professor Richard Edwards, Professor Tony Blakely New Zealand’s Smokefree 2025 goal is now less than ten years away but we are unlikely to achieve this world-leading goal unless the Government introduces innovative new policies that reduce smoking prevalence (1). Existing measures have tackled different facets of tobacco marketing, with plain packaging reducing a … Read More

Tobacco tax increases: new model measures impact - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • May 30, 2016 •

• impact,
• Maori,
• model,
• smokefree,
• tax,
• tobacco

By Frederieke Sanne van der Deen, Nick Wilson, Tony Blakely On Thursday the NZ Government announced it would continue it’s programme of yearly 10% tobacco tax increases for the years 2017 to 2020 inclusive. Using our peer-reviewed BODE3 forecasting model, we project that with these additional four years of tax increases smoking prevalence in 2020 will be 21.4% for Māori … Read More

(Un)licensed to kill: do we need to regulate how tobacco is sold? - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Apr 21, 2016 •

• licence,
• retail,
• smokefree,
• tobacco

By Lindsay Robertson, Janet Hoek, Richard Edwards and Louise Marsh* Two recent articles by Aspire2025 researchers have explored how tobacco sales in New Zealand could be more effectively regulated. The first examines licensing models that have been implemented overseas, while the second explores how provisions from the Psychoactive Substances Act 2013 could inform tobacco supply policies (both published in the … Read More