Media releases
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26 Nov 2010
The tobacco report: A kaupapa to save 5000 lives a year
An editorial in today’s New Zealand Medical Journal describes the recent Māori A...
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15 Oct 2010
Clash of views on healthy food labelling
Food manufacturers and the public health sector are at loggerheads over front-of...
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08 Sep 2010
Landmark Aust. study on cost-effectiveness of preventing disease – New Zealand has much to learn
New Zealand has much to learn from an Australian programme of research on the co...
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28 May 2010
New Zealand women targeted by tobacco companies
Despite the passing of the Smoke-free Environments Act in 1990 restricting adver...
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29 Jan 2010
New tobacco tax strategy needed to reduce smoking
Efforts to reduce smoking in New Zealand have been undermined since 2001 by incr...
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29 Jan 2010
New Zealanders support an end to all tobacco sales by 2020
New research just published in the NZMJ shows strong support for an end to tobac...
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19 Oct 2009
Comprehensive health recommendations published
An innovative University of Otago research project aimed at improving the oral h...
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24 Sep 2009
Smokefree parks are working without smoke police
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07 Aug 2009
Smoking ban in cars supported by all types of smokers
A clear majority of New Zealand smokers across all socio-economic and ethnic gro...
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04 Aug 2009
Litter study identifies missed tobacco tax revenue
The Government may be missing out on at least $36 million dollars of tax because...
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