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This exciting new study from ASPIRE2025 researchers Brent Caldwell and Julian Crane, is the first to look at nicotine by pMDI (pressurized metered dose inhaler) in smoking cessation.

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.

Every now and then when discussing New Zealand’s Smokefree 2025 goal, plain packaging or some other policy measure, the question will come up – ‘well why don’t you just ban it?’

The recently released US Surgeon General’s report gives “sufficient” evidence of causality for 13 additional health conditions (e.g., colorectal cancer, diabetes, and stroke from secondhand smoke).