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Reducing smoking in young adults, particularly young Māori and Pacific, is vital for reducing tobacco harm and health inequalities in New Zealand (NZ).

Evidence suggests that financial incentives can support smoking cessation among pregnant smokers and employees in a workplace setting, and that such schemes are cost-effective

Local outdoor smokefree action is rapidly growing around New Zealand.

This new study of the smokefree signs at 63 New Zealand playgrounds has found that less than half of the playgrounds (44 per cent) had any such signs.

This new research suggests young people more often discourage smoking among their peers than encourage it.

ASPIRE2025 researchers explore some of the arguments for and against extending indoor smoke-free laws to also cover vaping.

Dramatically changing the way tobacco is sold will be a crucial step in achieving the Government’s 2025 smokefree goal, according to this new ASPIRE2025 research, published in the New Zealand Medic

ASPIRE 2025, together with colleagues formerly from the Health Promotion Agency, have a new paper published in the NZMJ on smoking prevalence from the 2013 Census.

Although roll-your-own (RYO) tobacco often elicits negative connotations of a lower class product, uptake and use by young adult smokers has grown because RYO is more cost-eff

This study led by ASPIRE2025 tobacco control researchers describes recent smoking trends in New Zealand and shows that our Smokefree2025 goal will not be reached with a ‘business as usual’ approach