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To examine changes in the frequency and contexts of tobacco imagery on New Zealand television since 2004.

This article is the second paper to be published from the Marsden Fund project, ‘Smoking as an informed choice.’ It looks at how young adult Māori and Pacific smokers interpret ‘informed choice’ in

This article published in the New Zealand Medical Journal, summarises tobacco retail licensing schemes implemented in countries overseas and reviews how effective these schemes might be as part of

As New Zealand moves towards legislating for plain packaging of cigarettes, the Government should consider measures that extend and improve upon Australia’s model, ASPIRE2025 researchers believe.

Leading researchers from ASPIRE2025 warmly congratulate the government on announcing that it will pass standardised packaging legislation within the year.

Previous systematic reviews have found consistent evidence of a positive association between exposure to point-of-sale (POS) tobacco promotion and increased smoking and smok

Evidence suggests inconsistent findings on the relationship between density of tobacco outlets around schools and risk of smoking among students.

This viewpoint article on regulatory options for e-cigarettes, written by researchers from ASPIRE2025 and BODE3 , has been published in the New Zealand Medical Journal.

Tobacco companies question whether standardised (or ‘plain’) packaging will change smokers’ behaviour.

Once a leader on tobacco regulation, NewZealand has fallen behind, write ASPIRE2025 co-directors, Richard Edwards and Janet Hoek in this opinion piece.