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Several ASPIRE Aotearoa members attended the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT) conference in Edinburgh earlier this year. 

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.

Discarded cigarette butts are ubiquitous and spoil our environment.

The international SRNT conference took place on March 11th-14th 2020.

ASPIRE researchers incorporated findings from their work and international studies into their submission to the recently introduced Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amend

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

This opinion piece, written by the co-Directors of ASPIRE2025, was published today in the Otago Daily Times.

New Zealand has a world-leading goal to reduce smoking to minimal levels by 2025. World Smokefree Day is a good time to reflect on progress and review what is needed to realise that goal.

The presentations and posters by ASPIRE2025 researchers at the World Conference Tobacco or Health (WCToH) –  Cape Town, South Africa, March 2018 are listed below.