In this modelling study, published in the New Zealand Medical Journal, the ASPIRE2025 and BODE3 research groups found that to achieve the New Zealand Government’s Smokefree 2025 Goal (a b
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
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
This study looks at the impact of the NZ Government preventing new retail outlets from selling tobacco from 2020, while allowing existing retail outlets to continue selling it until they closed or
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
This study used novel smart technology to explore smoking-to-vaping transitions and suggests vaping is a complicated process and that some vapers may need additional cessation support to become smo
A team from the University of Otago, Wellington has just published a radical new framework for designing international trade and investment treaties (TIAs).
This new study suggests that threats of lawsuits by the tobacco industry helped delay the New Zealand legislation for plain tobacco packs by at least three years.