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Sunburn Is Not a Rite of Passage Health

Sunburn Is Not a Rite of Passage

NZ sun burns faster than almost anywhere else. Why our UV is worse, what a burn at nineteen costs at forty, and cheap habits that…
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Nicotine Pouches: The Thing Nobody Warned You About Health

Nicotine Pouches: The Thing Nobody Warned You About

Nicotine pouches turned up in NZ flats and changing rooms fast. What is in them, the side effects, the dependence risk, and where the law…
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Quitting Vapes: What Actually Helps Health

Quitting Vapes: What Actually Helps

What nicotine withdrawal really feels like, the free NZ quit support that works, and why one slip is not failure. A practical guide for young…
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Getting Outside When the Gym Is Not Your Thing Health

Getting Outside When the Gym Is Not Your Thing

Not a gym person? Free ways for young Kiwis to get moving outdoors, from DOC short walks to parkrun, with no membership and barely any…
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Drinking Less Without Making It a Whole Thing Health

Drinking Less Without Making It a Whole Thing

Young New Zealanders are drinking less than ever. Here is what the trend really looks like and how to cut back without turning it into…
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Vaping in 2026: What the Latest NZ Numbers Actually Show Health

Vaping in 2026: What the Latest NZ Numbers Actually Show

Regular youth vaping in NZ has fallen to 11 percent and daily use to 7 percent. What the ASH Year 10 survey numbers really mean,…
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Things Worth Knowing About What You Put in Your Lungs Health

Things Worth Knowing About What You Put in Your Lungs

Honest facts about what nicotine does to developing brains, what the NZ stats show, and why vaping is not the safe option the marketing suggests.
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Butthead Bash – When Saying No Was the Point Health

Butthead Bash – When Saying No Was the Point

How Butthead Bash events used humour, live music, and peer influence to deliver smokefree messaging that New Zealand teenagers actually wanted to hear.
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Kiss Off – The Campaign That Started It All Health

Kiss Off – The Campaign That Started It All

How a scrappy peer-led anti-smoking campaign called Kiss Off changed the way NZ talked to young people about tobacco - and launched a wider movement.
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Holistic Wellbeing Strategies for Young Adults Health

Holistic Wellbeing Strategies for Young Adults

Introduction Embarking on the journey of adulthood can be both thrilling and challenging. As young adults, we are often faced with a myriad of decisions…
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