Support for a tobacco endgame and increased regulation of the tobacco industry among New Zealand smokers: results from a National Survey

Edwards, Richard; Wilson, Nick; Peace, Jo; Weerasekera, Deepa; Thomson, George; Gifford, Heather

doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2011-050324

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“…We could also have assessed a wider range of possible tobacco control measures, including more radical end-game measures such as a complete ban on sales of cigarettes providing effective nicotine substitutes were available. 24,25 Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the longstanding focus on individual responsibility in the UK, 26 the vast majority of the sample attributed most of the responsibility for smokingrelated health problems to smokers. However, only about half considered tobacco companies, who supply such products in the first instance, mostly responsible.…”

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How Tobacco Companies are Perceived Within the United Kingdom: An Online Panel

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Sinclair²,

MacKintosh³

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How Tobacco Companies are Perceived Within the United Kingdom: An Online Panel

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Sinclair²,

MacKintosh³

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“…However, we suggest benefits of more intensive monitoring are likely to be less than those gained from comprehensive endgame restrictions on tobacco availability. Discussion of tobacco endgames has increased rapidly over the past 5 years36; several countries, including New Zealand, have established dates by which governments aim to have created essentially smoke-free nations (ie, where smoking prevalence is negligible) 37 38. Endgame strategies vary and range from excise tax increases39 through to more stringent supply regulations 40.…”

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Youth tobacco access: trends and policy implications

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ObjectiveWe examined whether the supply routes via which New Zealand adolescents aged 14–15 years accessed tobacco had changed during a period of dynamic policy activity.SettingWe analysed data from seven consecutive years (2006–2012) of the New Zealand Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Year 10 survey, a nationwide cross-sectional annual survey.ParticipantsAll New Zealand schools teaching Year 10 students are invited to participate in the survey; school-level participation rates have ranged between 44% and 58% and more than 25 000 students have responded to the survey in each year. The results presented draw on the subsample who reported smoking when surveyed (N∼9200). The data were weighted by age, ethnicity and school socioeconomic status (SES) to remove effects of systematic over-response by New Zealand Europeans and under-response by those in lower SES groups from trend analyses.Primary and secondary outcome measuresThe survey measured adolescents’ main reported tobacco supply source.ResultsSmoking prevalence declined significantly (8.1%) over the period examined (linear tend coefficient: −0.74; 95% CI −1.03 to −0.45, significant p<0.01). Friends showed a significant decline in relative importance as a supply source while caregivers and other sources showed a significant increase over the period examined.ConclusionsThe findings show that social supply, particularly via friends, caregivers and others, such as older siblings, is a key tobacco source for adolescents; commercial supply is much less important. The findings raise questions about the additional measures needed to reduce smoking among youth. Endgame policies that make tobacco more difficult to obtain and less appealing and convenient to gift merit further investigation.

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“…Banning cigarettes may be more likely to lead to black markets, present significant legal/trade barriers and be less likely to be supported by smokers and opponents of government interference 22 24 25 41 44 45…”

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Reducing the nicotine content of combusted tobacco products sold in New Zealand

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Large reductions in nicotine content could dramatically reduce reinforcement from and dependence on cigarettes. In this article, we summarise the potential benefits of reducing nicotine in combusted tobacco and address some of the common concerns. We focus specifically on New Zealand because it may be ideally situated to implement such a policy. The available data suggest that, in current smokers, very low nicotine content (VLNC) cigarettes decrease nicotine exposure, decrease cigarette dependence, reduce the number of cigarettes smoked per day and increase the likelihood of contemplating, making and succeeding at a quit attempt. New smokers would almost certainly be exposed to far less nicotine as a result of smoking VLNC cigarettes and, consequently, would probably be less likely to become chronic, dependent, smokers. Many of the concerns about reducing nicotine including compensatory smoking, an exacerbation of psychiatric symptoms, the perception that VLNC cigarettes are less harmful, and the potential for a black market are either not supported by the available data, likely mitigated by other factors including the availability of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes, or unlikely to offset the potential benefit to public health. Although not all concerns have been addressed or can be a priori, the magnitude of the potential benefits and the growing evidence of relatively few potential harms should make nicotine reduction one of the centrepieces for discussion of how to rapidly advance tobacco control. Policies that aim to render the most toxic tobacco products less addictive could help New Zealand attain their goal of becoming smokefree by 2025.

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Support for a tobacco endgame and increased regulation of the tobacco industry among New Zealand smokers: results from a National Survey

Cited by 34 publications

References 19 publications

How Tobacco Companies are Perceived Within the United Kingdom: An Online Panel

How Tobacco Companies are Perceived Within the United Kingdom: An Online Panel

Youth tobacco access: trends and policy implications

Reducing the nicotine content of combusted tobacco products sold in New Zealand

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