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The Ministry of Health’s recent announcement of a realignment of tobacco control services has heralded a welcome focus on the New Zealand Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal, and an acknowledgement th

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

This letter discusses findings of research into the usage of smokefree signage in New Zealand schools.

Australian tobacco companies have introduced evocative variant names that could re-create the aspirational connotations plain packaging aims to remove.

This study compared novel and traditional on-pack warnings as a trigger to prompt smoking cessation among young adults.

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

The tobacco industry have had a long standing interest in attracting young women to smoking.

The progress public tertiary education institutions (TEIs) have made towards becoming completely smokefree should encourage other New Zealand workplaces and institutions to follow suit, new Univers

It is now over 10 years since a New Zealand law requiring all preschools and schools to become completely smoke-free (including all grounds) became operational in 2004.