E-cigarette usage is growing in NZ and around the world but the scientific evidence-base regarding the benefits and risks of these types of products remains uncertain.
Every now and then when discussing New Zealand’s Smokefree 2025 goal, plain packaging or some other policy measure, the question will come up – ‘well why don’t you just ban it?’
The recently released US Surgeon General’s report gives “sufficient” evidence of causality for 13 additional health conditions (e.g., colorectal cancer, diabetes, and stroke from secondhand smoke).
In this Public Health Expert blog, Dr Ninya Maubach asks why regulators are prepared to introduce regulation that protects children in the event of a car crash, but are unwilling to protect them fr
In this blog in Public Health Expert, Tony Blakely and Nick Wilson discuss what it would take in the way of reductions in uptake (or initiation), and/or increases in cessation rates, to achieve the
Just posted is a new Public Health Expert blog on this week’s Juridical Ruling on the Calculator used to determine “Open Areas” where smoking is permitted: The need for an expanded national sm
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.