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  • New data on e-cigarette use among New Zealand adults

    General news
    Tue 16 Jul 2019

    Around one in six New Zealand adults have tried e-cigarettes but only 2 per cent are using them currently, a national survey has found.

  • HRC funding success; Whakahā o Te Pā Harakeke research programme announced

    General news
    Wed 26 Jun 2019

    With our partners, Hāpai te Hauora, Kōkiri Marae Keriana Olsen Trust, and ESR, ASPIRE2025 is thrilled to announce we have received a Health Research Council programme grant.  The Whakahā o Te

  • ASPIRE 2025 Recognised for Tobacco Control Excellence

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    Tue 2 Apr 2019
    On Monday the 1st of April, ASPIRE 2025 received the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand President’s Award, which recognised the research theme’s “exemplary efforts and achievements in the field of smoking cessation and tobacco control”.
  • ASPIRE Co-Directors Welcome Smokefree Cars

    General news
    Mon 11 Feb 2019

    ASPIRE2025 co-directors Anaru Waa, Janet Hoek and Richard Edwards welcome Minister Salesa’s announcement that she intends to progress a ban on smoking in cars.

  • What does the EY Tobacco Excise Tax Evaluation Report mean for reaching the Smokefree 2025 Goal?

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    Thu 24 Jan 2019
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    This blog comments on the Ernst and Young (EY) report to the Ministry of Health, which evaluated tobacco excise tax increases as a strategy for achieving the Government’s Smokefree 2

  • Tobacco product innovation in a smokefree world. Oxymoron or commercial cynicism?

    Blog
    Wed 24 Oct 2018

    Major tobacco companies have presented a vision of a smokefree world, where smoking prevalence has fallen to minimal levels.  This goal has much in common with national tobacco endgame goals a

  • Announcing Emerging Researcher Awards

    General news
    Fri 19 Oct 2018

    The National Institute for Health Innovation (NIHI), University of Auckland and ASPIRE2025, University of Otago are delighted to announce there will be three inaugural awards presented at the upcom

  • Making tobacco less available is both necessary and feasible – New NZ study

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    Mon 24 Sep 2018

    In our recently published work, Estimating the effect of a potential policy to restrict tobacco retail availability in New Zealand, we studied the impact of the NZ Government preventing n

  • How should governments deal with multinational consulting firms that work for the tobacco industry?

    Blog
    Tue 28 Aug 2018

    The New Zealand Ministry of Health is currently using a consulting firm EY (formerly Ernst & Young) to research the impacts of tobacco taxation, despite EY’s work locally and internationally fo

  • Smoke, heat or vapour? Ideas for risk-proportionate regulation to make World Smokefree Day irrelevant by 2025

    Blog
    Thu 31 May 2018

    World Smokefree Day is an apt day on which to propose some ideas that may greatly increase momentum for the achieving Smokefree Aotearoa 2025.

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