Showing posts with label New Zealand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Zealand. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Proposed age-adjusted smoking ban in the U.K.

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  The BBC has the story, about a proposal to ban smoking for everyone currently under the age of 18. (What could go wrong?) What is the UK ...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

New Zealand repeals anti-smoking law that would have prevented tobacco sales to anyone born after 2008

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 In an earlier blog post , I wrote about a New Zealand anti-smoking law, saying "And now there's a law that cuts nicotine content o...
Saturday, October 7, 2023

Nicotine in New Zealand, banned for the future generation.

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 In New Zealand, the incidence of smoking is down, but not so much among the Maori. And now there's a law that cuts nicotine content of ...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

Surrogacy law under review in New Zealand

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  From the U. of Canterbury: Who are my parents? Why New Zealand’s ‘creaky’ surrogacy laws are overdue for major reform  by Debra Wilson, An...
Sunday, March 14, 2021

The market for chicken parts

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  Can the wholesale food market come to resemble the modern retail financial market?  The WSJ has the story. Trading Chicken Feet Is Going D...
Friday, November 6, 2020

New Zealand votes to legalise euthanasia but not marijuana

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  The Guardian has the story: New Zealand votes to legalise euthanasia in referendum--Results must be enacted by the new Labour government b...
Friday, July 31, 2020

Australia-New Zealand kidney exchange program

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New Zealand and Australia are cooperating with cross-border, international kidney exchange. The Australian has the story: The chain gang...
Monday, May 11, 2020

Double bubble: Locking up with exactly one other household during lock down

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You thought your hard interpersonal decisions ended in high school, or when you married?  Not if you live in parts of Canada, where househo...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

Organ donor compensation in New Zealand

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Organ donation is being reorganized in New Zealand: First step toward more life-saving organ transplants Wednesday, 13 March 2019, Press ...