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NZ Beats Australia – Again

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New Zealand will regulate for full retail adult availability of new nicotine products. Bowing to public demand – and acknowledging it as the driver for change – the government is going ahead with legalising vaping despite the proximity of a general election later this year. In a statement, Associate Health

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Heneage ‘H’ Mitchell

H has been resident in Asia for more than 30 years. For nearly 15 years he was managing editor and co-publisher of the leading publication for the region’s tobacco industry, where he witnessed first hand the enormous changes sweeping the tobacco regulatory environment throughout Asia and the constant erosion of

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