Young people who have a cigarette occasionally—even just at weekends— have almost four times the odds of becoming a daily smoker by their late 30s compared to non-smokers, according to this Univers
In this viewpoint article published in the New Zealand Medical Journal, Professors Janet Hoek, Richard Edwards and Mike Daube urge the New Zealand Government to act on the real-world data that is r
New Zealand’s largest tobacco company is not keeping the recommended retail pricing for its leading budget brand in line with tobacco excise tax increases, according to this University of Otago stu
To examine the ‘nanny state’ arguments used by tobacco companies, explore the cognitive biases that impede smokers’ ability to make fully informed choices, and analyse the imp
Australian tobacco companies have introduced evocative variant names that could re-create the aspirational connotations plain packaging aims to remove.
This article provides an overview of the Global Tobacco Industry. It was compiled by tobacco control researchers, George Thomson and Nick Wilson from the University of Otago, Wellington.
Tobacco companies have described Australia as a ‘dark’ market, because the country’s ban on advertising and point-of-sale display and the requirement for plain packaging of tobacco limit