Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
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Aust N Z J Public Health · Apr 2015
Tobacco tax and the illicit trade in tobacco products in New Zealand.
To estimate the size of illegal tobacco trade and consumption and assess the impact of tobacco tax on the illicit tobacco market in New Zealand (NZ). ⋯ The results highlight a slight rise in small-scale tobacco smuggling through ports and mail centres. However, tobacco returns figures show that current tobacco tax policy has forced manufacturers to focus on the production of cheap legal tobacco products, directly competing with and undercutting the demand for illicit tobacco products. At the same time, locally grown illicit tobacco continues to remain a small, isolated problem and, with recent cuts in duty free tobacco allowance, it is expected that overall illicit tobacco will remain a very small proportion of total tobacco consumption in NZ.
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Aust N Z J Public Health · Apr 2015
The impact of violence against women on reproductive health and child mortality in Timor-Leste.
To determine differences in reproductive health and infant and child mortality and health between abused and non-abused ever-married women in Timor-Leste. ⋯ Preventing and reducing violence against women should improve women and children's health outcomes in Timor-Leste.