The share of high school seniors who said theyd vaped nicotine in the past month jumped from 11% in 2017 to 21% in 2022, according to the University of Michigans Monitoring the Future study
Inspections will be intensified in public places such as the central business district, shopping malls, parks, smoking areas, bars, and clubs, with on-the-spot fines for offenders
Model 2: as in Model 1 plus the Intolerance for Vaping Abstinence (IDQV) scale which measured withdrawal and coping intolerance (total score)
Figure 3 Taking a deeper dive into the data, it has been shown that the rise in vaping rates among Maori and Pacific Peoples has far outpaced the increase in vaping among other ethnic groups in Aotearoa New Zealand, with 27.7% of Maori and 21.7% of Pacific Peoples reporting current vape use in 2022/23.[31] This is a significant increase since the legalisation of vaping, with the proportion of Maori and Pacific Peoples who were vaping daily more than quadrupling between 2019/20 and 2022/23, compared to overall vaping rates which doubled over the same period.[32] Between 2018/19 and 2022/23, the current adult smoking rate among Maori dropped from 33.4% to 20.2%.[33] More striking is the sudden drop in smoking rates among Pacific Peoples, with the number of people currently smoking in this community more than halving between 2018/19 and 2022/23, dropping from 24.7% to 10.3%.[34] But what are the reasons behind vaping replacing and substituting for cigarettes in Aotearoa New Zealand
In the summer of 2024, Mr
