• Workshop with Donna Vallone - The truth Campaign

    General news

    In April 2018, ASPIRE2025 researchers were privileged to host in Wellington, Dr Donna Vallone, Chief Research Officer at Truth Initiative in the United States. Truth Initiative® is A

  • Report sets out action plan for Smokefree Aotearoa 2025

    General news
    News – 2 August 2017

    The Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025 plan (ASAP) has been launched today at Parliament Buildings, Wellington, by a collaboration of experts, community organisati

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

    Op-ed

    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

  • HRC funding success for ASPIRE2025 projects

    General news

    ASPIRE2025 researchers from the University of Otago and Massey University have been awarded over $3.0M in new health research funding from the Health Research Council (HRC) of New Zealand.

  • ASPIRE2025 support of Plain Packaging in New Zealand

    Op-ed

    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

    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

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

  • Toolkit - Smokefree cars

    General news

    This new toolkit has been developed to support health promoters and community groups to advocate and promote smokefree cars within their communities and region.

  • Smokers respond to spur of the moment chance to quit

    General news

    A novel trial that has been underway for a month at Queensgate mall in Lower Hutt has seen 256 smokers take up the chance to try nicotine replacement therapy on the spur of the moment.

  • Taking help directly to smokers

    General news

    A novel trial which offers smokers the chance to try nicotine replacement therapy on the spur of the moment as they go about their daily lives has started in Wellington.