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  • World-leading action plan on smoking will reduce harm

    Op-ed
    Wed 15 Sep 2021

    The Government’s Action Plan for a Smokefree Aotearoa is comprehensive, bold, and recognises the importance of improving the health of Māori and eliminating the unacceptable disparities in smoking

  • When will hospo become part of the smokefree solution?

    Op-ed
    Thu 8 Jul 2021

    In November 2004, 44 per cent of bar managers supported smokefree indoor regulations. Six months later, after the smokefree bar law came into effect, 61 per cent were supportive.

  • Cigarette firms must deal with their own mess

    Op-ed
    Fri 18 Sep 2020

    Discarded cigarette butts are ubiquitous and spoil our environment.

  • Smoking elimination impetus must persist

    Op-ed
    Thu 6 Dec 2018

    This opinion piece, written by the co-Directors of ASPIRE2025, was published today in the Otago Daily Times.

  • How can we make World Smokefree Day irrelevant by 2025?

    Op-ed
    Thu 31 May 2018

    New Zealand has a world-leading goal to reduce smoking to minimal levels by 2025. World Smokefree Day is a good time to reflect on progress and review what is needed to realise that goal.

  • Smoking in the car? Time to stub it out!

    Op-ed
    Thu 4 May 2017

    If the New Zealand Government is serious about its smoke-free goals and protecting children from harm, it is time to ban smoking in cars, write Profs Janet Hoek and Richard Edwards and Emeritus Pro

  • ASPIRE2025 support of Plain Packaging in New Zealand

    Op-ed
    Thu 18 Feb 2016

    Leading researchers from ASPIRE2025 warmly congratulate the government on announcing that it will pass standardised packaging legislation within the year.

  • Protect our children: standardise tobacco packaging now

    Op-ed
    Wed 7 Oct 2015

    Once a leader on tobacco regulation, NewZealand has fallen behind, write ASPIRE2025 co-directors, Richard Edwards and Janet Hoek in this opinion piece.

  • Save lives and don’t buckle to tobacco industry on plain packaging

    Op-ed
    Wed 1 Jul 2015

    ASPIRE2025 was delighted to host Eric Crosbie in New Zealand recently for his Auckland and Wellington seminars to the tobacco control sector.

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