Cost Savings of Brief Alcohol interventions in Primary Health Care Last Publication Date: 01 Sep 2011 Sapere Research Group was commissioned by ALAC to estimate the short-term health care cost savings from the use of alcohol brief interventions (BIs) in general practice…
Perceived access to tobacco: In Fact Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2011 In 2010, around seven in 10 (69%) young people thought they definitely could not get cigarettes/tobacco from anyone in their family/whānau or from their home if…
Parental attitudes and rules around smoking: In Fact Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2011 In 2010, around eight in 10 (84%) young people agreed that their parents would be upset if they were caught smoking cigarettes/tobacco. Around six in 10…
Survey of off-licence premises in North Shore/Hibiscus Coast: analysis of survey data Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2011 A survey of off-licence premises in the North Shore City Council (NSCC) region and Hibiscus Coast (within Rodney District Council [RDC] boundaries) took place in 2009/2010.…
Where are young people accessing and buying tobacco from? In Fact Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2011 In 2010, around seven in 10 (72%) young people who were current smokers said they got their own cigarettes from friends and around five in 10…
Estimates of how many people smoke: In Fact Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2011 In 2010, although around one in five (19%) New Zealanders were daily smokers, people overestimated the proportion of New Zealanders who smoke. The average estimate was…
Parenting and smoking: In Fact Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2011 In 2010, the majority (90%) of parents/caregivers of children aged five to 16 thought that they had influence over whether their child starts to smoke or…
Perceptions of quitting difficulty: In Fact Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2011 In 2010, around four in 10 (42%) young people thought it would definitely be difficult to quit smoking once someone has started, and around four in…
Acceptability of smoking in public places: In Fact Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2011 In 2010, around two in three (64%) people thought that smoking should not be allowed at outdoor sports fields and courts, an increase from 2008 (59%).…
What prompts quitting and what types of quitting support do people use? In Fact Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2011 In 2010, the top mentioned things that prompted quitting among those who had tried or had quit in the past year were health-related reasons (43%), because…