Lindsay Robertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4000676 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lindsay Robertson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lindsay |
| FAMILY NAME | Robertson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8383-9116 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Defining and conceptualising the commercial determinants of health
Specialist vape store developments during the implementation of New Zealand’s Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Act 2020
Need for continued tobacco industry monitoring
Developing more detailed taxonomies of tobacco industry political activity in low-income and middle-income countries: Qualitative evidence from eight countries
INTRODUCTION: Historical evidence, predominantly from high-income countries (HICs), shows that the tobacco industry uses a recurring set of arguments and techniques when opposing tobacco control policies. This data formed the basis of a model of tobacco industry political activity known as the policy dystopia model (PDM). The PDM has been widely used in tobacco control research and advocacy and has subsequently been shown relevant to other unheal…
PMI New Zealand conflates Iqos heated tobacco products with electronic nicotine delivery systems
Framing the policy debate over tobacco control legislation and tobacco taxation in South Africa
The dominance of economic arguments opposing tobacco control legislation risks undermining tobacco control progress. Local and global tobacco control advocates should seek to build relationships with media, as well as collate and disseminate effective counterarguments to those advanced by the industry
Online marketing activity following New Zealand’s vaping legislation
New Zealand’s (NZ) recently enacted vaping legislation imposes R18 sales restrictions (Section 40), prohibits advertising and sponsorship of vaping products (with some minor exceptions) (Sections 23 and 28) and bans specific sales promotions (Section 33)1 (see online supplemental file 1 for a timeline of the enactment of the law’s provisions). Yet despite these provisions, vaping and tobacco companies still use social media to stimulate co-create…
Association between density and proximity of tobacco retail outlets with smoking: A systematic review of youth studies
It’s Just Steam: A qualitative analysis of New Zealand ENDS users’ perceptions of secondhand aerosol
In the absence of trusted information, participants used sensory heuristics to rationalise their ENDS practices. Policy-makers face the challenge of correcting misperceptions about SHA without deterring full transition from smoking to ENDS use. They could consider including vaping in current smoke-free area policies; this measure would signal that SHA is not harmless, and could protect clean-air settings and reduce potential normalisation of vapi…
Exploring the Twitter activity around the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
The nature of the activity on Twitter around COP8, including a substantial online presence by PMI executives and NGP advocates with links to organisations funded directly and indirectly by PMI, is highly consistent with PMI's 2014 corporate affairs strategy, which described engaging tobacco harm reduction advocates to 'amplify and leverage the debate on harm reduction' around events such as the COP
Is the tobacco ‘footfall’ argument justified for tobacco purchases in New Zealand convenience stores
Our results do not support claims that tobacco drives one-quarter of footfall into stores or that customers who purchase tobacco spend almost twice as much as non-tobacco customers. Combined purchases of tobacco and non-tobacco items constituted 5.5% of transactions; the impact on a store's profitability of removing tobacco sales is unknown and could be the focus of future research
The technological ‘exposure’ of populations; characterisation and future reduction
Butting out: An analysis of support for measures to address tobacco product waste
Strategies to increase awareness of tobacco companies' role in creating TPW could foster political support for producer responsibility measures that require the industry to manage TPW. Nevertheless, policy measures should continue to foster smoking cessation and decrease uptake, as reducing smoking prevalence presents the best long-term solution to addressing TPW
New Zealand tobacco retailers’ understandings of and attitudes towards selling Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems: A qualitative exploration
Tobacco retailers' limited understanding of ENDS, and the higher value they placed on tobacco, suggests they may have little capacity or inclination to support ENDS users to quit smoking. Licensing schemes for both ENDS and smoked tobacco could simultaneously reduce supply of smoked tobacco while requiring ENDS retailers to meet minimum knowledge standards
Implementation of 100% smoke-free law in Uganda: A qualitative study exploring civil society’s perspective
This study suggests that the process of smoke-free law implementation in Uganda has not aligned with World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines for implementing smoke-free laws, and highlights that low-income countries may need additional support to enable them to effectively plan for policy implementation and resist industry interference
Prevalence and characteristics of tobacco purchases in convenience stores: Results of a postpurchase intercept survey in Dunedin, New Zealand
Tobacco products constitute a small proportion of items purchased from Dunedin convenience stores and are typically not purchased with non-tobacco items. Our findings are inconsistent with arguments that most small retailers rely on tobacco sales
Estimating the effect of a potential policy to restrict tobacco retail availability in New Zealand
A tobacco retail reduction policy that prevented new retail outlets from selling tobacco and grandfathered existing retailers would be unlikely to achieve New Zealand's target of a 95% reduction in tobacco outlet density within several decades of being enacted. Nonetheless, this policy could achieve a 50% reduction in tobacco retail availability in the first decade of implementation
Dual use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) and smoked tobacco: A qualitative analysis
Dual use reflects both social and physical cues. It assisted participants to navigate smoking restrictions and allowed them to manage divergent norms. Policies that discourage smoking, particularly excise tax increases on smoked tobacco and smoke-free space restrictions, appear important in prompting ENDS use. Future research could explore whether these policies also help foster complete transition from smoking to exclusive ENDS use
System Configuration Contributions to Vulnerability: Applications to Connected Personal Devices
There is a strong impetus to commercialize emerging technology, tempered by safety expectations and regulatory compliance requirements [1]. Such is the case for medical implant devices, where successful operation of devices can be life-saving, but while consequences of failure are severe. Recent advances in this technology aimed at enabling remote access to a device facilitate remote and more accurate monitoring of patient health. In doing so, or…
Assessing technology system contributions to urban dweller vulnerabilities
A Systematic Review on the Impact of Point-of-Sale Tobacco Promotion on Smoking
Tobacco retail outlet density and risk of youth smoking in New Zealand
Restricting the permitted density of tobacco retail outlets around schools should be part of comprehensive tobacco control. In this regard, both smokers and non-smokers support the introduction of increased regulation of the tobacco retail environment to achieve our national smoke-free 2025 goal
Regulating the sale of tobacco in New Zealand: A qualitative analysis of retailers’ views and implications for advocacy
Risk, complexity and sustainability [special section introduction]
A very strong argument exists that we need to be building vulnerability models so that we can at least know where the weakest points in an operational community (of individuals) lie. By identifying the weakest points, we can overcome them with strategies well in advance of a major incident. This does not mean that we can eradicate vulnerability completely from our communities, but we can minimize the level of exposure - both to anticipated and un…
Characteristics of tobacco retailers in New Zealand
Symposium: United States v. Billy Jo Lara: A Constitutional Crisis in Indian Law
Trevor Joseph Furlong, Lindsay Robertson, Edwin Kneedler, Alexander Reichert, Frank Pommersheim, Dan Murdock, Symposium: United States v. Billy Jo Lara: A Constitutional Crisis in Indian Law?, American Indian Law Review, Vol. 28, No. 2 (2003/2004), pp. 269-325
Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands
Journal Article Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands Get access Robertson Lindsay. Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xiii, 239 pp. $29.95. John C. Kincheloe John C. Kincheloe University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of…
From societal fragility to sustainable robustness: Some tentative technology trajectories
Risk, complexity and sustainability [special section introduction]
A very strong argument exists that we need to be building vulnerability models so that we can at least know where the weakest points in an operational community (of individuals) lie. By identifying the weakest points, we can overcome them with strategies well in advance of a major incident. This does not mean that we can eradicate vulnerability completely from our communities, but we can minimize the level of exposure - both to anticipated and un…
Characteristics of tobacco retailers in New Zealand
A Systematic Review on the Impact of Point-of-Sale Tobacco Promotion on Smoking
Tobacco retail outlet density and risk of youth smoking in New Zealand
Restricting the permitted density of tobacco retail outlets around schools should be part of comprehensive tobacco control. In this regard, both smokers and non-smokers support the introduction of increased regulation of the tobacco retail environment to achieve our national smoke-free 2025 goal
Regulating the sale of tobacco in New Zealand: A qualitative analysis of retailers’ views and implications for advocacy
System Configuration Contributions to Vulnerability: Applications to Connected Personal Devices
There is a strong impetus to commercialize emerging technology, tempered by safety expectations and regulatory compliance requirements [1]. Such is the case for medical implant devices, where successful operation of devices can be life-saving, but while consequences of failure are severe. Recent advances in this technology aimed at enabling remote access to a device facilitate remote and more accurate monitoring of patient health. In doing so, or…
Assessing technology system contributions to urban dweller vulnerabilities
Implementation of 100% smoke-free law in Uganda: A qualitative study exploring civil society’s perspective
This study suggests that the process of smoke-free law implementation in Uganda has not aligned with World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines for implementing smoke-free laws, and highlights that low-income countries may need additional support to enable them to effectively plan for policy implementation and resist industry interference
Prevalence and characteristics of tobacco purchases in convenience stores: Results of a postpurchase intercept survey in Dunedin, New Zealand
Tobacco products constitute a small proportion of items purchased from Dunedin convenience stores and are typically not purchased with non-tobacco items. Our findings are inconsistent with arguments that most small retailers rely on tobacco sales
Estimating the effect of a potential policy to restrict tobacco retail availability in New Zealand
A tobacco retail reduction policy that prevented new retail outlets from selling tobacco and grandfathered existing retailers would be unlikely to achieve New Zealand's target of a 95% reduction in tobacco outlet density within several decades of being enacted. Nonetheless, this policy could achieve a 50% reduction in tobacco retail availability in the first decade of implementation
Dual use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) and smoked tobacco: A qualitative analysis
Dual use reflects both social and physical cues. It assisted participants to navigate smoking restrictions and allowed them to manage divergent norms. Policies that discourage smoking, particularly excise tax increases on smoked tobacco and smoke-free space restrictions, appear important in prompting ENDS use. Future research could explore whether these policies also help foster complete transition from smoking to exclusive ENDS use
Butting out: An analysis of support for measures to address tobacco product waste
Strategies to increase awareness of tobacco companies' role in creating TPW could foster political support for producer responsibility measures that require the industry to manage TPW. Nevertheless, policy measures should continue to foster smoking cessation and decrease uptake, as reducing smoking prevalence presents the best long-term solution to addressing TPW
New Zealand tobacco retailers’ understandings of and attitudes towards selling Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems: A qualitative exploration
Tobacco retailers' limited understanding of ENDS, and the higher value they placed on tobacco, suggests they may have little capacity or inclination to support ENDS users to quit smoking. Licensing schemes for both ENDS and smoked tobacco could simultaneously reduce supply of smoked tobacco while requiring ENDS retailers to meet minimum knowledge standards
It’s Just Steam: A qualitative analysis of New Zealand ENDS users’ perceptions of secondhand aerosol
In the absence of trusted information, participants used sensory heuristics to rationalise their ENDS practices. Policy-makers face the challenge of correcting misperceptions about SHA without deterring full transition from smoking to ENDS use. They could consider including vaping in current smoke-free area policies; this measure would signal that SHA is not harmless, and could protect clean-air settings and reduce potential normalisation of vapi…
Exploring the Twitter activity around the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
The nature of the activity on Twitter around COP8, including a substantial online presence by PMI executives and NGP advocates with links to organisations funded directly and indirectly by PMI, is highly consistent with PMI's 2014 corporate affairs strategy, which described engaging tobacco harm reduction advocates to 'amplify and leverage the debate on harm reduction' around events such as the COP
Is the tobacco ‘footfall’ argument justified for tobacco purchases in New Zealand convenience stores
Our results do not support claims that tobacco drives one-quarter of footfall into stores or that customers who purchase tobacco spend almost twice as much as non-tobacco customers. Combined purchases of tobacco and non-tobacco items constituted 5.5% of transactions; the impact on a store's profitability of removing tobacco sales is unknown and could be the focus of future research
The technological ‘exposure’ of populations; characterisation and future reduction
Developing more detailed taxonomies of tobacco industry political activity in low-income and middle-income countries: Qualitative evidence from eight countries
INTRODUCTION: Historical evidence, predominantly from high-income countries (HICs), shows that the tobacco industry uses a recurring set of arguments and techniques when opposing tobacco control policies. This data formed the basis of a model of tobacco industry political activity known as the policy dystopia model (PDM). The PDM has been widely used in tobacco control research and advocacy and has subsequently been shown relevant to other unheal…
PMI New Zealand conflates Iqos heated tobacco products with electronic nicotine delivery systems
Framing the policy debate over tobacco control legislation and tobacco taxation in South Africa
The dominance of economic arguments opposing tobacco control legislation risks undermining tobacco control progress. Local and global tobacco control advocates should seek to build relationships with media, as well as collate and disseminate effective counterarguments to those advanced by the industry
Online marketing activity following New Zealand’s vaping legislation
New Zealand’s (NZ) recently enacted vaping legislation imposes R18 sales restrictions (Section 40), prohibits advertising and sponsorship of vaping products (with some minor exceptions) (Sections 23 and 28) and bans specific sales promotions (Section 33)1 (see online supplemental file 1 for a timeline of the enactment of the law’s provisions). Yet despite these provisions, vaping and tobacco companies still use social media to stimulate co-create…
Association between density and proximity of tobacco retail outlets with smoking: A systematic review of youth studies
Business (21 works) · Medicine (19 works) · Political science (15 works) · Smoking Behavior and Cessation (13 works) · Advertising (12 works) · Environmental health (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Tobacco industry (11 works) · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (10 works) · Law (10 works)