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Name of product
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Barrier to increased sale
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Manufacturer
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Remarks
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Next steps, 2008-09-10
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Health New Zealand Ltd role
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Tobacco Products –
combustible
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HNZ 1 Firesafe
cigarettes
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Manufacturers fail to supply market with fire
safe cigs.
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All cigarette manufacturers
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No fire-safe cigarettes on sale: No NZ
regulations
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NZ Standards in 2009 adopt fire- safe
standard
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In 2003 in Tobacco Control showed RYOs are firesafe. HNZ in
2009 helps set Standard via Standards Committee.
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HNZ2 Marlboro UltraSmooth
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Since our research, this MUS brand withdrawn
from sale.
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Philip Morris USA
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No safer than a Holiday regular brand
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Project complete.
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Published research on this cigarette in 2006
in Tobacco Control. Cigarettes can’t be made safe to an acceptable
degree.
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Tobacco Products – non-combustibles
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HNZ3 Reduced- nicotine
cigarettes (RNC)
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RNCs not sold commercially in NZ at present
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Vector Tobacco Company
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Do very low nicotine
cigarettes
if used for 6 weeks with NRT, increase success
in quitting?
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CTRU recruiting for this RCT in April 2009 through to Oct
2010.
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Dr Laugesen a
co-investigator in this 3 year study (The RELIQ study)
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HNZ4 Swedish Snus
(moist tobacco snuff)
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Requires law change to allow sale. Regulations
needed to exclude snuffs not in line with Swedish standards.
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Swedish Match
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Can’t be sold in NZ. Can be imported
for personal use; cost prohibitive due to tax.
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RCT for stop smoking study still needed. Lack
of non-tobacco donor.
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Co-applicant with Professor Crane, Wellington
School of Medicine, to HRC for funds for RCT for stop smoking; Not successful in 2006, 2007, 2008.
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HNZ5
Nasal tobacco snuff
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Legal to sell, illegal to advertise. No
public information on (low) relative harm of snuffs.
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Swedish Match
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Few repeat sales in 2007-8. Sales cannot succeed while advertising
banned.
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No further research worthwhile as sales low.
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Health NZ research on nasal snuff now complete and displayed at www.endsmokng.org.nz
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Nicotine-only products –
not inhaled
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HNZ 6 Nicotine gum, patch,
lozenge
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Subsidised by government through vouchers.
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Pfizer, Novartis
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Aims to elucidate benefits of greater choice for
quitters.
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CTRU RCT is finished recruiting.
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Co-investigator wth
CTRU team. (the SONIQ study) For publication in 2010.
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HNZ 7 Nicotine pouch, spray,
lozenge.
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Sale in NZ requires registration as a medicine.
Market small. NN has not yet applied to sell it in NZ.
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Niconovum AB. (NN)
Helsingborg, Sweden
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On sale in Sweden in 2009. Mouth spray also, and gum.
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CTRU with HNZ completed PK study** in 2007.
NN later sells out to Reynolds Tobacco Coy.
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Co-investigator with CTRU. (The NEWS study).
Study now published. McRobbie, 2009, 2010.
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Nicotine-only products – inhaled
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Electronic cigarette A). HNZ8
PK testing and effect on cravings
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B) HNZ 9
Electronic cigarette Benchtop safety tests
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Sale in NZ requires approval as a medicine. Sale
is permitted in USA and UK as a cigarette alternative.
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Ruyan (Holdings) Ltd, Hong Kong
and Beijing, China. Funded by manufacturer
(Ruyan)
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In 2008, Health NZ Ltd is main tester for Ruyan outside of China. Back-ground paper 2008 for WHO’s
Tobacco Regulation Committee.
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PK testing finished, 2009. Submitted for publication.
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Co-investigator. (the WIRED study) Contract manager for the funder. Published 2010.
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Safety testing completed, 2009. Paper
submitted.
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Coordinator and principal investigator
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HNZ 10 Nicotine pyruvate inhaler/ cigarette
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Not in production. Not registered for sale.
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Prototype only
Inventor Dr Jed Rose.
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Funded by Duke Univ. North Carolina USA
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A novel product tested in 2009.
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Managed testing in Christchurch. Co- investigator. To be published in 2010.
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HNZ 11
E-cigarette RCT
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Study of efficacy in Smoking cessation
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To be decided.
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Funded. Health Research Council of NZ
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RCT E-cig v.Patch
and v. placebo.
2011-2012
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Co investigator, CTRU
First such trial of an e-cigarette to be
funded.
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HNZ 12
2010 for 2011
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Further study on
e-cigarettes
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Funders and collaborators sought
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