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The NZ Ministry of Health is currently consulting on options around making nicotine-containing e-cigarettes available in NZ.

The hardening hypothesis suggests that as smoking prevalence declines, the remaining smokers will be the more addicted ones who are less likely to quit. But does the NZ evidence support this?

This blog considers recent studies in which the biomarker levels in e-cigarette users (vapers) are compared to those from tobacco smokers.

Two recent articles by Aspire2025 researchers have explored how tobacco sales in New Zealand could be more effectively regulated.

Progressing plain packaging legislation “sooner rather than later” is an important step towards our smokefree 2025 goal.

In this Public Health Expert blog we ask what the tobacco ‘carve out’ from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Treaty means for public health.

There is growing frustration with lack of robust action and progress at the national level with the Smokefree 2025 goal. However, it is not all bad news.

A series of seven annual tobacco tax increases, typically at the 10% level, will end in January 2016 unless it is extended by the NZ Government.

E-cigarette usage is growing in NZ and around the world but the scientific evidence-base regarding the benefits and risks of these types of products remains uncertain.

The Ministry of Health proposes realigning tobacco control services to progress New Zealand’s Smokefree 2025 goal.