Tagged: Smoking

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

Not forgetting the benefits to youth and non-smokers – an example from increases in tobacco taxes - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Sep 09, 2019 •

• e-cigarettes,
• Smoking,
• tobacco,
• vaping

Prof Nick Wilson, Prof Richard Edwards, Prof Janet Hoek Tobacco control’s focus on supporting smokers to quit, thus reducing the harm they face (e.g., via appropriately regulated access to e-cigarettes) remains important. However, we need to do more to protect youth and non-smokers from the burden of tobacco. In this blog we use the issue of tobacco tax increases … Read More

How should we manage the harm caused by tobacco product waste? - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Jun 14, 2019 •

• cigarette butts,
• cigarettes,
• plastic,
• rubbish,
• Smoking,
• waste

Professor Janet Hoek and Emeritus Professor Philip Gendall Annual consumption of cigarettes now exceeds five trillion, with around four trillion butts littered every year. These cigarette butts cause major environmental damage and impose significant clean-up costs on local authorities. Although tobacco companies have framed smokers as responsible for butt litter, recent debate has focused on the tobacco industry’s role … Read More

Vaping very likely to improve health in NZ – but how does this compare with other options? - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Mar 27, 2019 •

• e-cigarettes,
• Public Health,
• Smoking,
• tobacco,
• vaping

Prof Nick Wilson, Dr Frederieke Petrović-van der Deen, Dr Cristina Cleghorn, A/Prof Coral Gartner, Prof Tony Blakely Our just-published modelling study suggests that easier access to nicotine via vaping as a replacement for tobacco smoking, will improve the health of the NZ population. The estimated health gain is about the same as 10% per annum tobacco tax increases … Read More

What does the EY Tobacco Excise Tax Evaluation Report mean for reaching the Smokefree 2025 Goal? - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Jan 24, 2019 •

• aspire2025,
• smokefree 2025,
• Smoking,
• tobacco

Richard Edwards, Janet Hoek, Anaru Waa – ASPIRE 2025 and University of Otago This blog comments on the Ernst and Young (EY) report to the Ministry of Health, which evaluated tobacco excise tax increases as a strategy for achieving the Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal [1]. The report’s recommendations, including continuing annual tax excise increases (conditional on positive … Read More

Making tobacco less available is both necessary and feasible – New NZ study - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Sep 24, 2018 •

• Smoking,
• tobacco sales

Dr Lindsay Robertson* In our recently published work, we studied the impact of the NZ Government preventing new retail outlets from selling tobacco from 2020, while allowing existing retail outlets to continue selling it until they closed or relocated. The estimated outcome would be a 50% decrease in the total number of tobacco retail outlets by 2032. This blog puts … Read More

How much of Māori:European mortality inequalities are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco? - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Jun 15, 2018 •

• inequalities,
• Maori,
• Smoking,
• socioeconomic,
• tobacco

Prof Tony Blakely, Dr Andrea Teng, Prof Nick Wilson Policy-makers need to know how much of ethnic inequalities in health are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco smoking, but quantifying this is surprisingly difficult. In this Blog, and accompanying video, we summarize new research using NZ’s linked census-mortality data, blended with innovative new ‘counterfactual’ methods to determine causal relationships … Read More

Higher cigarette prices would help millions avoid poor health and extreme poverty - News

Jean Balchin • Apr 12, 2018 •

• cigarette prices,
• cigarette tax,
• economists,
• finance,
• Health,
• income,
• limitations,
• medical costs,
• modelling study,
• poor,
• population,
• poverty,
• public health advocates,
• rich,
• Smoking,
• UN sustainable development goals,
• universal health coverage

According to a study published in the BMJ today, a significant increase in cigarette prices would aid millions of people around the world avoid poor health and extreme poverty. The study concluded that people on low incomes have the most to gain, and the researchers argue that modest action by many governments “could yield unprecedented health gains and poverty reduction.” Smoking … Read More

Wrinkles, liver spots, crows’ feet: what happens to our skin as we age? - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 27, 2018 •

• ageing,
• collagen,
• crows feet,
• elastin,
• ethnicity,
• fats,
• fibroblasts,
• liver spots,
• melanin,
• melanoma,
• melanosomes,
• ozone hole,
• pathogens,
• pigment cells,
• skin,
• skin cancer,
• skin colour,
• Smoking,
• Sun,
• UV exposure,
• wrinkles

Michelle Rodrigues, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne This article is part of our series about skin: why we have it, what it does and what can go wrong. Read other articles in the series here. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The main factors that contribute to how old we … 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