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Māori smoking rates have barely changed since 2011, and the Government is not doing enough to address tobacco-related harm amongst Māori, say leading tobacco researchers and public health advocates

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.

This collaborative study between the University of Otago, New Zealand and University of Alberta, Canada, provides new and some unexpected insights for health promotion in North America.

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

We investigated trends in roll-your-own (RYO) and factory-made (FM) cigarette use over time among youth in New Zealand (NZ), a high RYO use country.

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

In this letter to the New Zealand Medical Journal, ASPIRE2025 researchers discuss the first-ever survey of hospital outdoor smokefree signage conducted in New Zealand.