News

Evidence that exposure to tobacco ‘powerwalls’ increases young people’s susceptibility to smoking has led many countries to require the removal of these displays.

An online survey of 414 smokers and 414 non-smokers found strong support among New Zealanders for more tobacco control interventions.

One possible supply-side strategy for the tobacco endgame is a government-mandated ‘sinking lid’ on tobacco supply (tradeable but decreasing quotas on sales or imports).

This study sought to examine young New Zealand smokers’ access to social supplies of cigarettes.

This news article in the British Medical Journal discusses the New Zealand goverments decision to move ahead with plain packaging of cigarettes.

The video recording and presentation slides are now available to members of the tobacco control sector, for this ASPIRE2025 seminar, held in Wellington on February 13th. 

We have developed manual methods to gather data on the point prevalence of observed smoking in road vehicles.

The New Zealand health sector pursues a wide range of tobacco control interventions and these have intensified after the adoption of the Government’s “Smokefree Nation by 2025” goal (e.g., smokefre

ASPIRE2025 researchers congratulate the government on its decision to introduce plain packaging.

To advance the design and implementation of outdoor smokefree area policies, we aimed to develop simple, low-cost methods for measuring smoking in a variety of public place