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The following submission was made by ASPIRE2025 in June 2016:

Smoke-free (Standardisation of Tobacco Packaging and Tobacco Products) Regulations – June 2016

Co-directors of ASPIRE 2025 Richard Edwards and Janet Hoek together with Natalie Walker, Chris Bullen and Robert Beaglehole of the University of Auckland have co-authored this new document outlinin

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

In this viewpoint article, University of Otago researchers, led by Public Health lawyer Louise Delany, propose a comprehensive new law to help New Zealand reach the government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

Tobacco control advocates have proposed a range of policies to reduce tobacco retail outlet density, as part of endgame strategies.

The hardening hypothesis proposes that as smoking prevalence declines the proportion of ‘hardcore’ or ‘hardened’ smokers will increase.

This new study suggests that July 2012 legislation that removed all point-of-sale tobacco displays from shops selling cigarettes has helped reduce smoking among New Zealand school students to recor

To examine changes in the frequency and contexts of tobacco imagery on New Zealand television since 2004.

This article is the second paper to be published from the Marsden Fund project, ‘Smoking as an informed choice.’ It looks at how young adult Māori and Pacific smokers interpret ‘informed choice’ in

This article published in the New Zealand Medical Journal, summarises tobacco retail licensing schemes implemented in countries overseas and reviews how effective these schemes might be as part of