A decade has passed since the then National-led government accepted the Māori Affairs Select Committee (MASC) Inquiry recommendation that New Zealand set a “longer-term goal of reducing smoking prevalence and tobacco availability to minimal levels, thereby [becoming] essentially a smokefree nation by 2025.”
The new report presents evidence on patterns of e-cigarette use, and knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about e-cigarettes among people who smoke and who have recently quit smoking in New Zealand, a
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.
This study observed and reported on the point prevalence of smoking at sports grounds and three downtown open spaces of Wellington City (Midland Park, Civic Square and Te Aro Park).
This ‘key themes’ document was prepared by members of ASPIRE2025 who attended the SRNT (Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobaccco) conference in Chicago at the beginning of March 2016.