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Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the News Talk's edby Newsroom. This is NEWSFACS. In
this update, anti smoking advocates say new date a prove
the connection between vaping and cigarettes. A study published in
the Lancet Medical Journal looks at twenty five years of
data on seven hundred thousand New Zealand teenagers. It suggests
the introduction of vapes abruptly ended a steep decline in
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youth smoking rates. Asthma and Respiratory Foundation chief executive Letitia
Harding says, it also confirms suspicion vapes are a gateway
to smoking.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
It's been really mixed messagings way back since twenty seventeen
that they were going to be the answer for slow
through Archer, and of course they haven't been. They've created
a whole other issue.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Hope's the same mistakes are not repeated once he throw
airport is back to normal. Flights are arriving at and
departing from the airport, and the chief executive says things
should be back to normal from tomorrow. Aviation commentator Irene
King says Auckland Airport had a large scale disruption during
the twenty twenty three flooding. She says we need to
make the best of these situations.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Every time there's a single point of failure, like the
l risk analysis that we do, you know everyone's taking
a massive, massive learning from this.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Otarger University researchers aim to help people with severe depression
stay well for longer after using ketamine for treatment. The
trials seen twenty eight people who've had difficulties with regular
antidepressants take part. Study. Lead Associate Professor Ben Beegelhol says
the research involves combining oral ketamine and psychotherapy and will
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enable recommendations around ketamine treatment. New laser technology could provide
earlier tsunami warnings for the Southwest Pacific. The revolutionary subsea cables,
which measure changes in frequency, have been deployed between New
Zealand and Australia. It's the first time the technology has
been used in these seas. GNS Science Principal Scientist Bill
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Fryer says the cables will facilitate warning the public to prepare.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
But it should give us a better way to more
quickly and accurately assess the local threat.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
That's news in sport. One of the great sickond acts
in sports, American boxing legend George Foreman has died at
the age of seventy six. Foreman reclaimed the world heavyweight
title at forty five after coming out of retirement, and
also became a celebrated product Pitchman Mahlee Mean feder Dusan
grilla machine with built in bondwarmer the levels, great tasting,
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greal food in minutes. Best of all, not without the fair.
Perhaps most famous for losing his first title to Muhammad
Ali in nineteen seventy four's Rumble in the Jungle in Zaire,
Foreman also won Olympic gold in nineteen sixty eight. The
Hurricanes PAW's faint hopes of making the Super Rugby o
Peaky Final have been snuffed out. The bottom placed power
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faced to must win against Marta III in Upper Hut,
but Marta TII won forty three twenty four. That's sport.
I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news, listen to News Talk
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