The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) is thrilled to announce that New Zealand has achieved its Smokefree 2025 goal well ahead of schedule, with smoking rates plummeting to unprecedented lows. Recent data from the New Zealand Health Survey reveals that smoking rates have fallen dramatically, particularly
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New Zealand’s Government has taken a progressive and welcomed stance on vaping, which is now a shining light in comparison to Australia’s newly announced “war on vaping” which doubles down on their failed medical model for nicotine. The only plausible outcome of this doubling down is less control on access
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The World Health Organisation has been under a lot of pressure recently; first with the issuance and eventual revision of its Q&A Detail on E-Cigarettes and then with the Coronavirus outbreak in China that is spreading globally. For the purposes of this blog, we are going to focus on the
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The first ever Australian campaign that encourages adult tobacco smokers who can’t or won’t quit to switch to vaping to reduce the harm from smoking has been launched in Australia. The campaign - “Switch2Vaping” - has been developed by leading Australian tobacco harm reduction advocates at a time when data
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The contradiction inherent in Australia’s decision to prop up smoking at the expense of new nicotine products was aired on national TV when 60 Minutes looked at the argument between local and international regulation. [for the vaping segment, click here] The Therapeutic Goods Administration recently decided against allowing the use
Read MoreThe latest position regarding consumer rights, taxation and usage of nicotine and tobacco products in Australia Percentage adult smokers According to the Australian Department of Health 13.3% of adults18 years or older smoked every day in 2013. WHO statistics suggest the figure for “current smokers” was 18% in 2012. The
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New Zealand will regulate for full retail adult availability of new nicotine products. Bowing to public demand – and acknowledging it as the driver for change – the government is going ahead with legalising vaping despite the proximity of a general election later this year. In a statement, Associate Health
Read MorePercentage adult smokers According to the Australian Department of Health 13.3% of adults18 years or older smoked every day in 2013. WHO statistics suggest the figure for “current smokers” was 18% in 2012. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that in 2011-12 there were 2.8 million Australians aged 18 years
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More than half of Australian adults believe the issue of legalising e-cigarettes to improve public health is important enough to influence how they will vote. New research from the Australasian Association of Convenience Stores (AACS) shows that 54 percent say the legalisation of e-cigarettes is a potential vote-influencing or even
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