New legislation to regulate vaping was introduced to Parliament today by Associate Health Minister Jenny Salesa in an effort to balance helping smokers quit while not encouraging new users. ACT Leader David Seymour says, "Labour's plan to regulate vaping in the same way as cigarettes is the most damaging public health policy in a generation".
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Tobacco tax "a raid on the wallets of Māori"
The annual cost of tobacco tax to Māori is approximately $120 million more than the combined annual budget of the entire Vote Māori Development portfolio and the average annual amount spent on Treaty Settlements, says the Executive Director of the Taxpayers Union Jordan Williams, as tobacco prices went up by 11% today. Williams describes the latest tax hike as 'a raid on the wallets of Māori'.
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2025 smokefree goals ‘a long way off’
Arnah Rewha, a full-time smoker is adamant she will switch to vaping if the Government addresses urgent knowledge gaps around the effects vaping products have on people in New Zealand. This comes as anti-smoking experts look for better outcomes for vapers.
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"Stop the smoking thing, and sing"
Tūranga Healths’ new 'Auahi Kore-oke' programme encourages locals to quit smoking by using the medium of singing and competition.
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NewsPhilip Morris NZ official statement to Te Ao with Moana
Māori Television's current affairs programme Te Ao with Moana invited Philip Morris New Zealand corporate communications manager Peata Melbourne to appear on the programme, but she declined and provided this statement.
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Vaping- 'It's attacking & attracting our rangatahi'
Two Māori health advocates are arguing that tobacco companies are merely diversifying to protect their profits by promoting vaping and are especially hard marketing to teenagers and Māori communities.
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Vaping- "It may not be healthy at all"
A former public relations expert says vaping is being allowed to take rapid hold in New Zealand because big tobacco companies are pitching it as a healthy alternative to smoking, when it may not be healthy at all.
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Expert says smoking tax hike "doing more damage than good"
New Zealand has the highest price relative to income in the world for a pack of 20 cigarettes. Dr Marewa Glover is calling on the Associate Minister of Health Jenny Salesa to look into the yearly tax hike on tobacco which she says isn't preventing people from smoking.
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Te Tairāwhiti rangatahi call on community to be Smokefree
Today is the international smokefree day and rangatahi in the Gisborne area, with support of the Tairawhiti Smokefree Collective, are encouraging their community to be smokefree, as Te Tairāwhiti hosts the highest rates of smoking in New Zealand.
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Petrol station goes tobacco free to help people quit
A petrol station in Kaupakapaka will stop selling tobacco on World Smokefree day today in a bid to help community members quit smoking.
