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End Smoking campaigners welcome Snus into NZ

Friday, 1 June 2018, 2:11 pm | End Smoking NZ

End Smoking New Zealand is pleased to see Swedish snus will soon be available in New Zealand, something it has been lobbying for, for more than a decade. More >>

Support for smoke-free alternatives key to Smokefree goal

Tuesday, 23 May 2017, 4:27 pm | End Smoking NZ

The Government’s recent decision to legalise nicotine for e-cigarette vaping shows just how serious it is about New Zealand Smokefree 2025 goal, according to a group of leading public health researchers. More >>

Legalising nicotine for vaping supportive move by Government

Wednesday, 29 March 2017, 1:15 pm | End Smoking NZ

There’s been no sympathy for smokers or the retailers who sell cigarettes. Harsh measures to stub out smoking means just 15% of New Zealanders still smoke. Sales of tobacco have continued to drop on average by 5% per year. But, academics have ... More >>

Health professionals called upon to learn about vaping

Friday, 9 September 2016, 10:32 am | End Smoking NZ

Health professionals and smokers think nicotine e-cigarettes would be helpful as stop smoking aids, said the authors of a study published in the New Zealand Medical Journal today. Led by Trish Fraser of End Smoking NZ, the study interviewed a small ... More >>

New Zealand to make nicotine e-cigarettes legal

Tuesday, 2 August 2016, 2:56 pm | End Smoking NZ

End Smoking NZ applauds the Government on its decision to make nicotine for vaping (using electronic cigarettes) legally available in New Zealand. The Government has agreed in principle that nicotine for e-cigarettes should be legally available for ... More >>

E-cig ads will fall on disappointed lungs

Tuesday, 12 May 2015, 9:37 am | End Smoking NZ

The new ecig ads on Auckland's Rock FM will fall on disappointed lungs, says the Chair of End Smoking NZ Associate Professor Marewa Glover. NZ law prohibits the sale of nicotine for electronic cigarettes. More >>

Ministry of Health moves to ban electronic cigarettes

Tuesday, 18 September 2012, 3:55 pm | End Smoking NZ

The Ministry of Health has moved to bar the popular nicotine electronic cigarette Hydro , (sold on-line and through 900 retailers) on the grounds that such sales are in breach of the Medicines Act. End Smoking NZ believes this is against the public ... More >>

 
 
 
 
 

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