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The Government’s Action Plan for a Smokefree Aotearoa is comprehensive, bold, and recognises the importance of improving the health of Māori and eliminating the unacceptable disparities in smoking

In November 2004, 44 per cent of bar managers supported smokefree indoor regulations. Six months later, after the smokefree bar law came into effect, 61 per cent were supportive.

A new editorial on the ‘hardening hypothesis’ has recently been published in Tobacco Control.

This study by ASPIRE2025 researchers identified the extent and nature of outdoor smokefree signage at a sample of railway stations in New Zealand.

Research from both ASPIRE2025 and NIHI will be presented this week at the international SRNT conference in San Francisco, USA.

The COP7 (Conference of the Parties 7) for the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control was held in November in Delhi, India.

Children’s playgrounds are a potential priority area for new smokefree places to protect children from both secondhand smoke and the adverse normalising impact of seeing adult smoking.

In response to the growing use of new psychoactive substances (NPS), including products such as synthetic cannabis, the New Zealand Government passed a law in 2013 to establish a regulated legal ma

Leading researchers from ASPIRE2025 warmly congratulate the government on announcing that it will pass standardised packaging legislation within the year.