Policy and Advocacy: Tobacco

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Our smokefree future

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Global disasters dominated the news cycle in March, and a story that might otherwise have grabbed headlines slipped through largely unnoticed. But, says Ben Youdan, it’s a story that may have monumental repercussions for New Zealand and reassert us as a leader on the world smokefree stage.

Smoking bans in prisons - do they work?

Monday, November 22, 2010

From 1 July 2011, a total smoking ban for prisoners will come into effect across New Zealand. Sanji Gunasekara looks at the government’s rationale behind this move, the evidence for its effectiveness and what such a ban might actually mean.

Big tobacco hires whaling guy to astroturf

Sunday, May 30, 2010

One vocal opponent of the tobacco tax increase has been the Association of Community Retailers (ACR), a group that describes itself as a “grassroots organisation” of “small, independent family-run retail outlets”. However, a few surface scratches reveal the group’s ‘corner dairies owned and operated by mum and dad’ membership to be a façade. Keith Ng suggests the deception has been so clumsy it borders on comedy.

Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER Plus)

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

The New Zealand Drug Foundation – Te Tūāpapa Tarukino o Aotearoa welcomes the opportunity to comment on PACER Plus, the proposed free trade agreement between New Zealand and Australia and the Pacific Forum Island Countries.

It's not Ok to kill your customers

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

The next stage in New Zealand’s tobacco control battle needs a greater focus on where the heart of the blame lies. It’s time to tackle the industry, argues Ben Youdan.

Lore and Leadership: Changing the smoking culture of Maori

Thursday, May 15, 2008

The sun is setting on tobacco in this country. Shane Kawenata Bradbrook believes that within 10 years, the countdown to a tobacco-free New Zealand will see a dramatic change in smoking behaviour amongst Maori and non-Maori unlike. The biggest change will not come through legislation, but through Maori lore – tikanga – and through a shift in Maori leadership.

Seeing past the smoke

Thursday, November 1, 2007

With an estimated 1,100 million regular smokers in the world today and one related death every 10 seconds, tobacco is among the world’s most used and dangerous drugs. Ann McNeill and Jamie Bridge suggest how harm reduction philosophy could replace the usual global ‘quit or die’ response.

Inquiry into New Zealand’s relationships with South Pacific

Friday, May 25, 2007

The Drug Foundation is concerned about the widespread harms caused by drugs in New Zealand communities; the biggest harms are being caused by our legal drugs – alcohol and tobacco. Alcohol and tobacco cause serious problems on a global scale.

Smoke-free environments regulations health warnings

Thursday, June 1, 2006

The New Zealand Drug Foundation welcomes the opportunity to make comment on this the second round of consultation. In general we are pleased that the two options for consultation involve the introduction of graphic warnings, and are more than the minimum required under the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). It has been noted that countries that implement the FCTC label policy at its highest level (i.e. warning labels of a larger size, containing graphic elements) will experience greater impact, compared to the minimum standard.