Kate JefferyDec 23, 2022
Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
New Zealand's new anti-smoking policies take effect 1/1/23--3 big interventions:
1. illegal to sell combustible tobacco products to ppl born in 2009 or later
2. reducing # of licensed tobacco retailers from 6k currently to 600 maximum
3. lower cigarette nicotine content to below addictive levels.
https://www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagazine/library/item/23_december_2022/4068251
#PublicHealth #PopHealth #Policy #Health #Medicine
Science Magazine - The final puff

Smoking kills. Ayesha Verrall has seen it up close. As a young resident physician in New Zealand’s public hospitals in the 2000s, Verrall watched smokers

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Show threadLarry SadlerDec 23, 2022
@RMCarpiano
I used to think that that would be the only way to phase out smoking, but I'm so sure anymore.
Show threadAm I?Dec 23, 2022
@RMCarpiano
Wow, vape lobby really dodged a bullet there! Come on. out the same restrictions on vape, we all deserve it.
@kramse