Astonishing how Costello recalls events from an evening nearly 15 months ago (www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...), yet still can't recall the source of the tobacco industry friendly "mystery document" she passed on to the MOH to inform tobacco policy.

NZ says it will explore “co-operation on critical minerals” with the United States, a day after NZ PM Christopher Luxon brushed off talk of any such co-operation. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Trump #USA #RareMetals #MineralDeals #ShaneJones

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🧵1/2 Important new study published in @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social examines impact of sales bans in two US cities: tinyurl.com/mr4yk52v

Very proud of my hard-working summer students (Amelia and Jade) who explored young people's views of oral nicotine pouches: www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroo... Watch this space as we finalise their research studies and submit their work for publication!

Ravie de faire partie de l'équipe dirigée par @karinegallopel.bsky.social. Notre nouveau article ici: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mXOF3PEro...

In today’s NZ Herald

New Zealand Election Study, 2023. Question C12e: Big business in New Zealand has too much power. Demographically weighted responses: Strongly or Somewhat agree 52% Strongly or Somewhat disagree 16%

Literally thinking about this in the NZ context today, why is it always "the Greens should try to appeal to dairy farmers and people who drive Humvees" and not "NZ First should try to appeal to people who went to university and believe in human rights"

In today’s NZ Herald

Evergreen reminder that this was something she came up with, not something she was advised to do. In fact she was pretty specifically advised it was a terrible idea (it was) but she went ahead with it anyway because something something Not Real Science

🧵1/2 If Winston Peters is worried about funding membership of the WHO, here's a simple solution: end sales of duty-free tobacco.

Apparently it's $3m we pay WHO. The taxpayers pay. Not Winston, but us, and I'm happy with that. Three million dollars is probably the cost per minute for running this idiotic and wasteful luxon government #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Oh, what a surprise, NOT! 🙄 #nzpol

You can in fact pretty quickly find and access the original WHO constitution. You could even, for a lark, ask Winston Peters to specify exactly which part of its mandate he thinks WHO has forgotten, and as a treat compare that to the weird fringe bullshit the Parliament occupation types spouted

"Labour's Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall said she was deeply concerned "that I see that sort of rubbish about the WHO & international health regulations on the internet, and all of a sudden it's in a coalition document." Archive of deleted TVNZ 1News [ web.archive.org/web/20231211... ] #nzpol

“Withdrawing from the World Health Organisation (WHO) is scientifically reckless,” says R. G. Nahass, president of Infectious Diseases Society of America. “Global cooperation is not a luxury; it is a biological necessity” (for healthy survival) #NZpol #USpolitics www.nzherald.co.nz/world/formal...

Our own Green Party is a partner in the Global Greens with the Green Party of England. And this brilliant ad is just as applicable here as there

Would explain the capriciousness and overconfidence :)

We need our own version of this ad. #nzpol

The public said fuck off, so they tried an underhanded way & now MickyDs have a 24 in Wanaka without public input. 'new proposal was approved through a non-notified process, meaning the public had no opportunity to comment.' www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/nationa...

Remember the 38yo unexpectedly pregnant woman who had to deal with a terrorist massacre, a volcanic eruption and a global pandemic while raising a baby? Did anyone cut her one tenth of the slack this POS is getting?

1. Aotearoa New Zealand friends and colleagues 🇳🇿, Logistics for my February trip are coming together. I'd love to meet more of you and/or talk with groups of interested colleagues about AI course and teaching in a ChatGPT world (thebullshitmachines.com). Right now, my schedule is as follows:

Well, someone recognizes rape culture when he sees it

On Friday the Greens provided journalists a ‘prebuttal’ of the PM’s forthcoming speech. Today I feel we deserve some kind of prize (I mean, not the Nobel) for correctly predicting about 90% of the content, betting it would continue the relentless pursuit of the interests of the wealthy and sorted

Important, thoughtful and perceptive analysis, thank you.

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

It’s important we post videos like these that centre Greenlanders and especially Inuit from the protests in Denmark and Greenland today. After all, they are the people who are affected by this: and the fact 1/4 of the country turned up shows!

Thinking about what it means that our elected representatives in Aotearoa are so close with those in the US who are complicit in the murder of their own citizens and what that means if our current elected representatives are elected for another term.

Not allowing cigarette filters is an evidence-based measure that would reduce the harms caused by tobacco product waste.

🧵(1/2) In yet another challenge to Costello's tobacco policy approach, a comprehensive new meta-analysis of heated tobacco products questions their role as quit smoking aids: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39805598/

Here is the link 🔗 to my Radio NZ interview this morning: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

More myth busting from @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social. Ever thought vapes target people who've smoked for many years and been unable to quit using approved cessation tools? Check out how gaming tools on some vapes overtly target youth: tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/34/6...

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch🛟 🫁💊🧪 Tech companies force employee nicotine addiction for unproven productivity gains.

Interesting how the framing is all put on Labour / Greens to do the right thing and not the crisis of a gov that can't get its own legislation through.. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I don't think corruption gets enough follow up in New Zealand. The links (should I say "concidences") between donations to politicians/parties and laws passed. The NZF/Costello tobacco link. NZF and fishing industry. Property and virtually every RW party.

Oh they understand alright

The sentencing of Jevon McSkimmings, and others of his ilk, for seeking out and viewing online child sexual abuse material. My Stuff #cartoon today #Police #CSAM

I was a very heavy smoker and really enjoyed smoking indoors (a pint, pack of cigarettes and a book at a bar was my heaven…)- I was really upset about the ban at first but then just got used to it. *I also don’t smoke anymore.

It's not just one picture. recommend a click to see this in full an uncomplicated way of presenting a complex way of being.

Not Santa.... my #nzpol cartoon #NZListener

Quite aside from the main point of this which was collecting useful health data, and that I could sort of see when things were higher risk in terms of respiratory illnesses circulating, I liked feeling like I was doing something useful for public health.

Now that it's public: RIP FluTracking, which I understand only cost $50k per year to administer, yet provided incredibly valuable and irreplaceable information on levels of influenza-like-illness. What an utterly dim decision.

Nicola Willis commenting on the economy “With fresh air in its lungs, the economy is picking up". Just imagine how much fresh air there could have been in people's lungs if the Nats had retained our former popular and world-leading smokefree measures rather than caving to NZ First.

Comment from Otago University: NZ can’t afford to fund anti-obesity drugs for the third of the population that needs them. So how can we afford equitable access to these treatments?

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