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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.

This study was carried out by fourth year medical students at the University of Otago, Wellington under the supervision of ASPIRE2025 researchers, Nick Wilson and George Thomson.

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.

REPORT FROM THE PUBLIC HEALTH SUMMERSCHOOL, 2015

As promised in the report, “SMOKEFREE 2025: TEN YEARS AND COUNTING.

We invite you to take a look at the ASPIRE2025 research theme’s Annual Report for 2014.