Tagged: vaping

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

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

Kea catching, moose hunting and Juuling – some of May’s great stories - Lately, In Science

Sarah-Jane O'Connor • May 31, 2018 •

• journalism,
• juul,
• kea,
• moose,
• Science journalism,
• spider,
• vaping

It may come as no surprise that at the Science Media Centre we consume a lot of media; it’s very much our job to keep abreast of what’s happening in New Zealand particularly in the science scene. But we also know that for those of you who aren’t eyes-deep in media on a daily basis, it can be hard to … Read More

Smoke, heat or vapour? Ideas for risk-proportionate regulation to make World Smokefree Day irrelevant by 2025 - Unsorted

Public Health Expert • May 31, 2018 •

• heat-not-burn,
• smokefree 2025,
• tobacco,
• vaping

Richard Edwards, Anaru Waa, Janet Hoek, Louise Thornley, Nick Wilson. ASPIRE 2025, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington World Smokefree Day is an apt day on which to propose some ideas that may greatly increase momentum for the achieving Smokefree Aotearoa 2025. Tobacco and vaping products such as e-cigarettes vary greatly in their likely adverse health effects … Read More

Regulatory Catch-22? - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • May 25, 2018 •

• e-cigarettes,
• heat-not-burn tobacco,
• plain packaging,
• vaping

Last month’s court decision, and subsequent MoH position statement, mean that heat-not-burn tobacco products are legal to sell in New Zealand.  But the MoH position statement said that other tobacco control regulations will apply to reduced-risk tobacco and tobacco-derived products, barring the ban on indoor use in workplaces. Therefore, the same SFEA regulatory controls apply to smoked tobacco, heated … Read More

Otago and disagreement - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • May 11, 2018 •

• e-cigarettes,
• Ministry of Health,
• public health,
• tobacco,
• vaping

Every time I think that the University of Otago’s Public Health people can’t get any worse, they go and surprise me. Today, the Initiative launched Jenesa Jeram’s excellent report on vaping and reduced-harm alternatives to smoking. It walks through the evidence on the risks of vaping, heat-not-burn products, and snus, and makes some recommendations around liberalising access so that … Read More

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

The deregulated interregnum - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Mar 16, 2018 •

• chemicals,
• Doctors,
• e-cigarette,
• ecigarettes,
• EPA,
• FDA,
• Health,
• Legalisation,
• legislation,
• medical,
• prescription,
• Pseudoephedrine,
• regulation,
• tax,
• tobacco,
• vaping

E-cigarettes in New Zealand are in a really interesting spot right now. Last year, the then National-government signalled that a new legal regime for vaping was on its way. At the time, importation of nicotine-containing vaping liquids for personal consumption was allowed, but retail sale within New Zealand was not. That wasn’t to say it didn’t happen, but you kinda … Read More

Can we manage dual use of smoking and vaping more effectively? - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Feb 16, 2018 •

• advertising,
• Health,
• pharmacies,
• Quit Smoking,
• smokers,
• Smoking,
• tobacco,
• tobacco control policies,
• vaping

Professor Janet Hoek, Dr Lindsay Robertson, Ms Mei-Ling Blank, Dr Rosalina Richards Although most smokers want to quit, many of those who begin vaping continue to smoke. We recently probed this perplexing ambiguity and explored dual use of cigarettes and electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) [1]. In this blog, we summarise our findings and consider interventions that could encourage … Read More

Informative advertising - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Feb 09, 2018 •

• advertising,
• cigarettes,
• e-cigarettes,
• Nicotine,
• vaping

New Zealand’s in a fun legal limbo right now on e-cigarettes. Everybody knows that the Ministry of Health is soon to be liberalising, so the de jure restrictions that prevent selling of nicotine-containing e-liquids aren’t being enforced. It’s pretty easy to get vaping liquid. In some ways, whatever regulatory regime comes out of this will be more restrictive than the … Read More