Tagged: vaping

Proposed Vaping Regulations for NZ: Strengths and Limitations - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Feb 25, 2020 •

• e-cigarettes,
• smokefree 2025,
• Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Bill,
• Smoking,
• tobacoc,
• vape devices,
• vape shops,
• vaping

Janet Hoek, Richard Edwards, Andrew Waa, Nick Wilson, George Thomson Minister Jenny Salesa announced the Government’s long-awaited Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Bill on Sunday 23 February.  The Bill contains some important provisions as it works to strike a balance between ensuring regulated products are available to smokers wishing to quit, while at the same time … Read More

Ten things we can learn from new smoking and vaping data about progress to Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Dec 17, 2019 •

• e-cigarettes,
• smokefree 2025,
• Smoking,
• tobacco,
• vaping

Richard Edwards, Janet Hoek, Nick Wilson, Andrew Waa [All from Department of Public Heath, University of Otago, Wellington] New NZ Health Survey data show some encouraging recent reductions in smoking prevalence. However, progress remains inadequate to achieve the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 goal and the government needs to take urgent action, particularly to reduce marked disparities for Māori and Pacific peoples. Read More

Is Youth Vaping a Problem in New Zealand? - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Dec 02, 2019 •

• e-cigarettes,
• Smoking,
• smoking cessation,
• tobacco,
• vaping,
• youth vaping

Professors Janet Hoek and Richard Edwards, Emeritus Professor Phil Gendall, Jude Ball, Dr Judith McCool, Anaru Waa, Dr Becky Freeman Recent media reports have presented conflicting evidence on youth vaping in NZ. While some NZ school principals report concerns about increasing vaping on school grounds and confiscating vapes, ASH Year 10 survey data have been interpreted as suggesting few young … Read More

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

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