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To examine the extent to which cigarette smoking in adolescence is associated with maladaptive versus adaptive coping behaviors in adulthood.

Evidence that exposure to tobacco ‘powerwalls’ increases young people’s susceptibility to smoking has led many countries to require the removal of these displays.

An online survey of 414 smokers and 414 non-smokers found strong support among New Zealanders for more tobacco control interventions.

One possible supply-side strategy for the tobacco endgame is a government-mandated ‘sinking lid’ on tobacco supply (tradeable but decreasing quotas on sales or imports).

This study sought to examine young New Zealand smokers’ access to social supplies of cigarettes.

This news article in the British Medical Journal discusses the New Zealand goverments decision to move ahead with plain packaging of cigarettes.

The 2013 International  Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) saw Richard Edwards and Andrew Waa present recent research on behalf of the ASPIRE2025 team.

We have developed manual methods to gather data on the point prevalence of observed smoking in road vehicles.

The New Zealand health sector pursues a wide range of tobacco control interventions and these have intensified after the adoption of the Government’s “Smokefree Nation by 2025” goal (e.g., smokefre

ASPIRE2025 researchers congratulate the government on its decision to introduce plain packaging.