RNZ reports: An RNZ investigation into the tobacco blackmarket found packs of cigarettes and loose tobacco being sold brazenly over the cou...

Outcome-based contracting would have solved this: A stop smoking provider says the decision to cut its contract on the basis it has refused ...

There are a few basic bits of reality that I'd hope we could agree on. Minister Costello has set a lower excise rate for heated tobacco ...

A living-wage campaigner didn't like my column on tobacco prohibition and complained to the Media Council.  The Council didn't uphol...

The afternoon's worthies: Immigration restrictions on spousal work rights are dangerous. 28 months jail for tobacco smuggling Pseudoephe...

None of this can really be happening. It has to be fake news. Or somehow generated by the tobacco industry. Remember? Janet Hoek told us. Bl...

Late last year, the government passed legislation intended to sharply reduce the sale and consumption of legal tobacco.  It is also intended...

The accumulated worthies: Dave Heatley on the publicly-provided goods that should, and should not, draw user charges - and how to tell the d...

If youths are vaping, it's not for want of rules prohibiting supplying youths with vape. The rules are broadly modelled on the rules aro...

Last year, Guy Bentley and I put together a joint submission on New Zealand's proposed very low nicotine content rules.  We noted an int...

We have too many tabs open here at the Crampton Discount Browser Tab Warehouse, and we have to liquidate stock immediately. All the links yo...

A long-delayed closing of the browser tabs: A compilation of the Official Information Act requests that Health New Zealand ignored or delaye...

A little while back, the Ministry of Health put up some indicative maps of where licensed tobacco retailers might be allowed to operate. Th...

Easing back into the office after a summer break and already the tabs have multiplied. Today's worthies: Alex Penk on the value of free ...

A closing of some of the browser tabs: Eli Dourado on NEPA - America's equivalent to the RMA . Superb seeming primer on how it all works...

I was out on leave last week, touring around Lake Taupo with the family, hoping desperately for snow that didn't come.  We had fun anywa...

The draft legislation for the coming changes to the smoking rules are out. There's a lot of nuttiness in there: a cap on the number of t...

The browser tabs. I think they're conspiring against me. They're multiplying. I have to get rid of them, before they get rid of me. ...

There are 5 different Chrome windows, each chocka. I can't do every bit justice. So, a roundup while I try closing maybe 2 of them. Supe...