2.1 Market Share and Sales Data Brands that dominate retail and convenience store sales in 2025 rank highest on our list
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.[xxviii] This is a significant increase since the legalisation of vaping in Aotearoa New Zealand, with the proportion of Maori and Pacific peoples who were daily vapers more than quadrupling between 2019/20 and 2022/23, compared to overall vaping rates which doubled over the same period.[xxix] Between 2018/19 and 2022/23, the current adult smoking rate among Maori dropped from 33.4% to 20.2%.[xxx] More striking is the sudden drop in smoking rates among Pacific Peoples, with the number of current smokers in this community more than halving between 2018/19 and 2022/23, dropping from 24.7% to 10.3%.[xxxi] What has been the role of government in regulating safer nicotine products and vaping in particular
In a final suggestion, he proposes that cigarette butts be recycled
Survival analysis of a Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) lung cancer dataset demonstrated that high expression of acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) gene family such as CHRM2, CHRM3, CHRNA1, CHRNA2, CHRNA6, CHRNB3, or CHRNE is associated with favorable prognosis in NSCLC adenocarcinoma, but that of CHRNA5/5nAChR or CHRNA7/7nAChR is associated with an unfavorable prognosis [41]
