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Aug 8, 2024 | 
tobaccocontrol.bmj.com | Ruth Canty |Coral E Gartner |Janet Hoek |Marita Hefler
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
tobaccocontrol.bmj.com | Ruth Canty |Coral E Gartner |Janet Hoek |Marita Hefler
AbstractBackground/aims Regulatory schemes for tobacco retailing help restrict the supply and availability of smoked tobacco products. Tobacco retailer density and the proximity of tobacco outlets to youth spaces, such as schools, are greater in more disadvantaged areas. Exposure to tobacco retailing normalises smoking and increases ease of access, thus increasing smoking uptake and undermining quitting.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
dailybulletin.com.au | Janet Hoek
Australia will become the first country to restrict vape sales to pharmacies from next week. This new policy represents a very different approach to the path Aotearoa New Zealand is taking, and includes some important steps. First, it recognises that to benefit population health, vaping products should not be treated as everyday consumer items. Second, it introduces a distribution system that moves away from the commercial, profit-driven approach currently operating in New Zealand.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
tobaccocontrol.bmj.com | Heewon Kang |Kathryn J. Steadman |Janet Hoek |WAYNE HALL
AbstractObjective We synthesised the published literature on proposals to restrict tobacco supply to pharmacies, covering (1) policy concept/rationale/attempts, (2) policy impact and implementation and (3) policy and research recommendations. Data sources We searched eight databases (PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase, IPA, ProQuest and OATD) for publications with at least an English-language abstract. We searched reference lists of included publications manually.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
newsroom.co.nz | Janet Hoek
Opinion: Government spokespeople have failed to provide evidence or logic to justify their proposed repeal of world-leading smokefree legislation. Instead, they have claimed that reducing retailer numbers from about 6000 to 600 would greatly increase crime, particularly ram raids targeting tobacco products – a claim based on anecdote. Examination of police data on ram raids suggests these crimes are decreasing and that only a minority target tobacco products.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Richard Edwards |Janet Hoek
Supporters of the new government’s plan to repeal Aotearoa New Zealand’s smokefree legislation have claimed victory against “prohibition”. Introduced under Jacinda Ardern’s government, the smokefree law came into effect in January 2023 and included a commitment to introduce mandated “denicotinisation” (cutting the nicotine to levels that are no longer addictive) of smoked tobacco products.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
newsroom.co.nz | Janet Hoek
Despite declines in New Zealand’s annual road toll (an estimated 343 in 2023), an Automobile Association spokesperson explained why there are no grounds for complacency: “.” He is right to remind us that road accidents mean the people killed will never realise their hopes and dreams; their whānau will always bear a heavy loss, and their communities will lose skills, connections and ambitions.
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
msn.com | Janet Hoek
The vaping industry should back up its call for stronger steps to protect our young people from vaping with some action Opinion: Recently the Vaping Industry Association of New Zealand (VIANZ) replied to a piece colleagues and I wrote in the New Zealand Medical Journal where we discussed the proliferation of vape outlets. The industry response said it “has repeatedly asked for stronger steps to be taken by Government to protect our rangatahi”. We agree. The Government should clearly do more.
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Feb 13, 2023 | 
tobaccocontrol.bmj.com | Janet Hoek
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5549-3269Anna Graham-DeMello1, http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4362-1539Janet Hoek2 1Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand 2Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand Correspondence to Anna Graham-DeMello, Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, 9016, New Zealand; graan33p{at}otago.ac.nz Abstract Background Aotearoa New Zealand plans to greatly reduce tobacco retail outlets, which are concentrated...
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Feb 3, 2023 | 
dailybulletin.com.au | Janet Hoek
Sat Feb 4 Written by Janet Hoek, Professor of Public Health, University of Otago Existing regulations have not managed to reduce the rising rates of youth vaping in Aotearoa New Zealand. Both the latest NZ Health Survey and Snapshot Y10 survey reported high levels of daily vaping among young people aged 18 to 24 (23%) and 14 to 15 (10% overall, but more than 20% among rangatahi Māori).
