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Event

UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO PUBLIC HEALTH SUMMER SCHOOL: Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 goal: How can we get there now?

Symposium
Over a decade ago, the New Zealand government set a goal to become essentially ‘smokefree’ by 2025. Come along to learn about whether we are on track to reach our goal this year.

WEBINAR: Power, influence and the tobacco policy landscape in Aotearoa

Webinar
If we know smoking is so bad for you, how come it’s not banned?  A: Well it’s complex…

Publication or Resource

Edwards, R.
Hoek, J.
Reducing nicotine in tobacco would help people quit – without prohibiting cigarettes
The Conversation
Waa, A.
Wise practices in commercial tobacco research to promote racial equity
Nicotine & Tobacco Research.
van der Deen, F.S.
Wilson, N.
Cleghorn, C.L. Kvizhinadze, G. Cobiac, L.J. Nghiem, N. Blakely, T.
Impact of five tobacco endgame strategies on future smoking prevalence, population health and health system costs: two modelling studies to inform the tobacco endgame.
Tobacco Control,
2018;27:278-286 .

Research Project

INSPIRED

INSPIRED is a collaborative project across the first six countries to adopt government-endorsed endgame goals for smoking: Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada, Finland, Ireland, Scotland, and Sweden.

Perceptions of the Smokefree 2025 goal among smokers experiencing disadvantage

In-depth interviews probing how people with fewer material resources viewed tobacco endgame policies found they supported denicotinisation and enhanced cessation support, but often relied on industry framing to assert smoking as a “choice”.

Te Ara Auahi Kore

Te Ara Auahi Kore (TAKe) is a series of studies that provide much needed high quality evidence for addressing smoking disparities between Māori and non-Māori.

Whakahā o Te Pā Harakeke

This five-year research programme comprises three whenu that collectively aim to reduce smoking disparities by accelerating progress towards a Smokefree Aotearoa.

EASE/ITC Study

EASE is Aotearoa’s International Tobacco Control (ITC) project, a health study which aims to support Aotearoa New Zealand’s Smokefree 2025 goal.
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