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E-cigarettes comparable to patches – NZ research
Electronic cigarettes are as effective as nicotine patches in aiding smokers to give up tobacco, according to new research. However […]
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How much good, healthy life is lost due to disease, injury and death in New Zealand? A new report from […]
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Included in today’s Budget 2012 announcements was the plan to increase tax on tobacco and allocate new funding to prevent […]
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Martin Johnston writes in the New Zealand Herald about research from Victoria University suggesting that roll-your-own cigarettes (rollies) might be […]
Continue readingHeavy smoking in pregnancy and crime in offspring
Research published today in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, suggests children of mothers who smoke heavily during pregnancy […]
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Samantha Hayes reports that a University of Otago study has found that despite an international ban on tobacco advertising, YouTube […]
Continue readingPODCAST: Professor David Nutt – The Inconvenient Truth about Drugs
Prominent psychiatrist Professor David Nutt has been touring New Zealand giving lectures about his view that illegal drugs should be […]
Continue readingNewsletter Digest: The CRI Taskforce, a sequenced methanogen, non-smoking NZ and GM
CRI Taskforce set to give its verdict The CRI Taskforce, set up by the Government to review the structure of […]
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