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Latest news..
10 Sep 2011 Nicotine tax: End Smoking NZ’s recommendation
for making cigarettes less addictive. See the
poster.
7 July 2011 Cigarette prices
up 27%, releases down 16.5%:
repeat 10% annual rises in tax can halve consumption by 2021.
7 July 2011 Smoking ban in prisons
How to phase out smoking with four well-chosen policies, by 2020
Poster
in colour. NZMJ
paper
Politics
2011 Nicotine e-cigarettes
can be sold as tobacco products – End Smoking NZ’s 2010 view,
and again in 2011: http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/124-1328/4521/content.pdf
See past releases News2010.htm
To reduce
addiction, should nicotine
in cigarettes be taxed? An End Smoking presentation at APACT Sydney meeting, October
2010.
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Focus: the addicted smoker.
Complaint
85% of smokers say their cigarettes are too
addictive.
Diagnosis
1) Tobacco addiction far more serious problem than
nicotine addiction.
2) Tobacco
addiction is the main barrier to NZ achieving smokefree
nation status by 2025.
3) NZ currently
has no specific policies to reduce addiction to cigarettes (except a health warning) and without it, achieving smokefree nation status is much in doubt.
Policy to reduce
addiction
See proposed Nicotine
tax policy at top left.
Past performance
In 1990, banning tobacco
advertising was considered impossible. We did it anyway.
In
2003 banning smoking in bars was considered impossible. We did it
anyway.
Philosophy
Right now, phasing out
cigarette sales is considered impossible.
What is impossible will become
possible as smoking decreases and alternative products become available
in this decade.
Polls
We have public support. Around 60% say end cigarette sales within 10 years.
Products
We are involved in the use and
research of a range of new and old nicotine products which will make it
more pleasant for smokers to quit or switch to safer ways to inhale.
Price
Thousands of smokers are
reducing their smoking in 2011 and 2012 in response to recent tobacco
tax and price increases. Next price
increase will be 1 January 2012.
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