Latest news: www.healthnz.co.nz/News2011.htm
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e-cigarettes:
www.endsmoking.org.nz/news.htm
www.endsmoking.org.nz/ecigarette.htm
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July
2010:
Celebrating 15 years in business
Achievements
2000-2010.
Dr Laugesen, Health New Zealand,
has authored 36 peer-reviewed research papers, thanks to funders, co-researchers and reviewers. http://www.healthnz.co.nz/Publicnsall.htm
Product
research plans
2011-13.
Dr Laugesen is co-investigator with Clinical
Trials Research Unit, University
of Auckland,
for a major clinical trial of the e-cigarette as an aid in quitting. www.healthnz.co.nz/News2010.htm
at 17 June.
Health
New Zealand Ltd’s research quest is for
safer product choices for smokers. See the company’s achievements
and future plan: www.healthnz.co.nz/Alternatives.htm
Policy
research plans
2011-14:
Health New Zealand
aims to research policies capable of reducing smoking and phasing out cigarette
and tobacco sales by 2020, in support of End Smoking NZ’s
plan:
www.endsmoking.org.nzFourPolicies14May2010.pdf
Previous
policy research
1995-03
Health New Zealand Ltd was founded in July 1995,
published Smokefree E-news from 1997, supported
ASH and Smokefree Coalition’s efforts,
and co-authored the most quoted research in aid of the 2003 law making
workplaces smokefree: http://www.healthnz.co.nz/SHSdeaths.htm
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May
14. Oral submission to the Tobacco Inquiry of
the Maori Affairs Select Committee in Christchurch
on relevant company research results. www.healthnz.co.nz/HealthNZ_Oral_14May2010.ppt
9 April 2010: E-cigarette clinical trial results. www.healthnz.co.nz/News2010.htm
March 2010: 6712 visits to this site, mainly
for information on e-cigarettes. 45% from USA, 17% from NZ.
October 2009: Dr Laugesen slide presentation on the electronic cigarette Oceania Tobacco Control Conference.
Darwin. ElectronicCigsDarwinOct09.pdf
July 2009: Over 7000
visitors to this site, mainly to read or download
Health NZ research on e-cigarettes, and mainly from USA, but many from NZ
and a wide spread of other countries.
30 July
2009. FDA report – actually shows e-cigarettes much safer than
conventional ones ecigarette.htm
26 June
2009. RYO cigarettes dangerous money-savers - Health NZ research coynews.htm
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Research of
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DiFranza et al. (in press) on the clinical staging
of tobacco addiction
http://www.healthnz.co.nz/Staging_Addiction
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27 February 2010: New Nicotine cigarette
gives fast delivery of nicotine to the lung. Results released to
Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco in Baltimore MD, USA. For smokers, this is
likely, once sold, to be a life-saving smoking substitute they will
gladly switch to.
Nicotine Pyruvate
inhaler-cigarette has potential as a rapid, safe and pleasant way for
smokers to obtain nicotine. The
device was tested by Health New Zealand Ltd and Christchurch Clinical
Studies Trust in 2009 for Duke University, USA.
21 January 2011. Now published. For the full
text report in Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, click here
to see
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 2010
Dr Murray Laugesen
QSO for public services
WHO Tobacco or Health medallist
MBChB NZ, FRCS Edin, MCCM NZ, FNZCPHM Dip Obst
Managing director and public health
physician
On leaving the
Public Health Commission in 1995 Dr Laugesen
founded Health New Zealand Ltd as his consultancy company. Dr Laugesen has been involved in the prevention of
cancer, heart disease and smoking at national level since 1984. More…
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