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November 07, 2022 by qeios.com
Review of: Tobacco endgame intervention impacts on health gains and Māori:non-Māori health inequity: a simulation study of the Aotearoa-New Zealand Tobacco Action Plan
Building on recent progress towards the New Zealand Smokefree 2025 goal, the Government plans to introduce tobacco control legislation giving ministers powers to implement three significant new policies:
a steep reduction in the number of retail outlets that can sell tobacco;
a ‘smokefree generation’ proposal that would make it illegal to sell tobacco to anyone born after a certain date, and;
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In preparation for this legislation, the Ministry of Health funded academics from Australia and New Zealand to model estimates of the likely impact of these measures, especially their contribution to achieving the Smokefree 2025 goal.
October 27, 2022 by nzherald.co.nz
Warning to vape importers, manufacturers over nicotine level confusion
Authorities have requested importers and manufacturers of vape products to review the nicotine concentrations, with the potential for products to be withdrawn if they exceeded limits.
This comes as TVNZ's Fair Go reported the Ministry of Health may have been given false or misleading information about the amount of nicotine in some products.
The Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act required products to be accurately labelled with the concentration of nicotine in mg/mL.
October 11, 2022 by scoop.co.nz
Proponents Also Concerned About Many Vape Shops
“It’s vaping advocates who first raised concerns about the proliferation of dairies becoming specialist vape retailers (SVRs). New Zealand’s Asthma and Respiratory Foundation’s (ARFNZ) latest round of public scaremongering is not helpful,” says Nancy Loucas, co-founder of Aotearoa Vapers Community Advocacy (AVCA). “Not one Kiwi has reportedly died from vaping, yet 5,000 die every year from smoking-related illnesses. Despite this, the ARFNZ continues to obsess about the most effective smoking cessation tool we have. Its latest media beat up doesn’t help one Kiwi quit tobacco nor help New Zealand achieve Smokefree Aotearoa 2025,” she says.
September 14, 2022 by scoop.co.nz
Expert Smokefree Submissions Deliver Answers - AVCA
“We are relying heavily on MPs to read and act on the valuable submissions to Parliament’s Health Select Committee which provide expert and practical solutions to help New Zealand achieve Smokefree Aotearoa 2025,” says Nancy Loucas co-founder of the Aotearoa Vapers Community Advocacy (AVCA). The Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Bill limits the number of retailers able to sell smoked tobacco products, aims to make tobacco products less appealing and addictive, and prohibits the sale of tobacco products to anyone born in 2009 or after.
September 06, 2022 by planetofthevapes.co.uk
Strong Reasons To Follow UK’s Success
The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) has welcomed the Action on Smoking and Health report showing vaping success in the United Kingdom. “Smoking in Britain is dramatically falling, largely because adults keen to quit have been able to switch to considerably less harmful vaping,” says Nancy Loucas, Executive Coordinator of CAPHRA.
Loucas’ comments come as the UK’s Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) released a report which it says shows a “vaping revolution” has taken place over the past decade. [...]
August 31, 2022 by nzherald.co.nz
Smoking bill: Foodstuffs, Z Energy oppose immediate limit of number of tobacco retailers
Foodstuffs NZ and Z Energy are lobbying the Government to drop a proposed immediate limit to the number of retailers able to sell tobacco products in an amendment bill deemed world-leading smoking legislation.
But the Cancer Society NZ says maintaining the thousands of tobacco retailers across the country will significantly hinder New Zealand's Smokefree 2025 aim.
The health select committee today heard public submissions on the bill, which would mean people aged 14 and under would never be able to legally buy tobacco and dramatically reduce nicotine levels.
August 23, 2022 by nzherald.co.nz
Science Digest: Do you know what's inside your vape?
New Zealand is on its way to curbing people's addiction to nicotine cigarettes, but is the switch to vaping or e-cigarettes any better for the public?
Increased prices, tough legislation and a growing awareness of health risks have pushed many smokers away from cigarettes. In its wake, vaping has exploded in popularity in New Zealand, with chain store Shosha now operating over 100 stores, while research shows there are more stores selling vaping products near schools than there are fast food joints.
Many teenagers and people who never tried cigarettes are now hooked on vaping, with many seeing it as a healthier option to smoking.
July 26, 2022 by theconversation.com
New Zealand’s ‘tobacco endgame’ law will be a world first for health – here’s what the modelling shows us
With the first reading of a new bill in parliament today, Aotearoa New Zealand’s plan to be smokefree by 2025 takes another tangible step forward.
The Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Bill will now go to the Health Select Committee for submissions and review, and (presumably) return to the House in late 2022 to be passed into law.
Assuming the final legislation looks similar to what is being proposed, it will mean Aotearoa New Zealand leapfrogs all other countries to be at the vanguard of tobacco control, with policy settings aimed at getting smoking prevalence beneath 5% of the adult population within years (not decades).
July 14, 2022 by rnz.co.nz
Northland council urges crackdown on vape stores
Kaipara District Council is seeking support for a national crackdown on vape sales - with some Dargaville locals aghast at having 13 vape retailers within one kilometre in their town. Other councils will be asked this month if they think vape retailers should all be R18, and if there should be national 'proximity limits' to prevent the clustering of such stores.
A 150-metre stretch of Dargaville's main shopping street Victoria Street features three different speciality vape retailers.
Within a kilometre radius, another 10 stores identified by the local health agencies - and verified by RNZ - sell plainer mint, menthol and tobacco flavoured vapes, alongside other goods.
June 22, 2022 by nzherald.co.nz
Vaping: Survey shows one in five Year 10s taking up habit as school fits hidden detectors
Aggressive marketing and evolving technology has left schools battling a vaping "epidemic", but one school has installed high-tech hidden detectors to help pupils break the habit.
A University of Otago professor, meanwhile, says punishment and education can only do so much while the devices for inhaling enticingly flavoured nicotine remain so widely available.
The academic pointed to research showing that one in five (20.2 per cent) of Year 10 students in New Zealand schools were regularly vaping.