Tagged: Smoking

NZ compares well with other OECD countries in health & other areas: But scope for improvements - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Nov 15, 2013 •

• air pollution,
• life expectancy,
• Mental health,
• obesogenic environment,
• smoking,
• taxes,
• walking,
• well-being

Assoc Prof Nick Wilson and Dr Nisha Nair NZ compares favourably with other OECD countries in many ways – according to the just released results of the OECD’s “Better Life Index”. This blog considers some of the details and also … Continue reading → … Read More

Protecting children in cars from tobacco smoke: The inconsistent case of new mandatory child restraints while optional smoking persists - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Nov 01, 2013 •

• children,
• public health law,
• smokefree New Zealand,
• smoking,
• tobacco,
• vehicles

Dr Ninya Maubach Today sees new rules to ensure children are safely secured in cars come into force, yet many remain exposed to hazardous second hand tobacco smoke (SHS) in vehicles. This blog ask why regulators are prepared to introduce … Continue reading → … Read More

The need for an expanded national smokefree law – just got more critical - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Oct 04, 2013 •

• law,
• smokefree,
• smoking,
• tobacco,
• well-being

Associate Professors Nick Wilson & George Thomson A just released Judicial Review has opened up the question of how “open areas” of buildings (where smoking is permitted in New Zealand) are determined in practice. In this blog post we consider … Continue reading → … Read More

Smart party pill law makes tobacco & alcohol regulation look pathetic - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Sep 24, 2013 •

• alcohol,
• harm reduction,
• party pills,
• Psychoactive Substances Act,
• smoking,
• tobacco,
• well-being

Professor Richard Edwards Party pills now have stringent government-promulgated rules and processes. All but one MP voted for the new law. The irony is that tobacco – and for that matter alcohol – with orders of magnitude more harm gets … Continue reading → … Read More

Does change in income and deprivation change your smoking risk? Yes, but in different directions. - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Sep 12, 2013 •

• deprivation,
• income,
• smoking,
• tax,
• tobacco

Professor Tony Blakely Everyone knows that lower socioeconomic groups are more likely to smoke.  But why?  Is it because of things like less education or more deprivation actually causing you to smoke?  Or is it other correlated things like personality?  … Continue reading → … Read More

New Zealand E-cigarette trial in Lancet – keeping it in perspective - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Sep 09, 2013 •

• harm reduction,
• smokefree,
• smoking,
• tobacco

Professor Tony Blakely A New Zealand randomized trial of e-cigarettes just published in the prestigious Lancet journal has been touted in the media as showing how good e-cigarettes are for people wanting to quit smoking.  This is overstating the study … Continue reading → … Read More

The case for tobacco supply restrictions - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Sep 06, 2013 •

• smoking,
• tobacco

Professor Janet Hoek, University of Otago It is now time to reduce the number and density of retail outlets selling tobacco.  Retail supply restrictions are both a logical component of policies that will achieve a tobacco-free New Zealand by 2025, … Continue reading → … Read More

No, you can’t tax your way to happiness - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Jan 13, 2013 •

• Behavioural economics,
• James Zucollo,
• paternalism,
• smoking,
• tobacco

Imagine that you have a meta-preference against smoking, but your day-to-day preference is always to delay quitting. If only you had some way of stopping yourself, you'd be better off. In the absence of other commitment mechanisms, regulatory or tax me... Read More

Tax maximisation, smoking, and the Stalin Gap - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Jan 09, 2013 •

• cost-benefit analysis,
• externalities,
• fiscal externalities,
• smoking,
• socialist calculation debate

If my lifestyle and leisure choices lead me to remit less to the government in taxes than I would have under alternative scenarios, have I imposed an externality on the State? James Meanwell asks: Eric, care to weigh in on a debate I'm having about t... Read More

Tobacco plain packaging, if we cared about evidence - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Sep 05, 2012 •

• Australia,
• excise,
• New Zealand,
• plain packaging,
• Sciblogs,
• smoking,
• tobacco

The Science Media Centre provides an expert round-up of commentary on a new paper finding, unsurprisingly, that people like branded tobacco packs more than they like plain packs. What's more relevant for policy, and what we really have no clue about, i... Read More