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  • Ten years of a national law covering smoke-free school grounds: a brief review

    Letter
    Wed 28 Jan 2015

    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.

  • What does the 2025 Smokefree Goal mean to the New Zealand public?

    Letter
    Fri 19 Dec 2014

    The New Zealand government has committed to a goal of making New Zealand essentially a smokefree nation by 2025.

  • Smokefree 2025: patterns and trends in references to the smokefree goal in political speeches and press releases

    Letter
    Thu 31 Jul 2014

    New research published in the New Zealand Medical Journal by ASPIRE 2025 researchers suggests the Government’s goal to achieve a Smokefree New Zealand by 2025 may be failing to gather the political

  • Should New Zealand do more to help other Pacific nations become smokefree by 2025? The case of Tokelau as a potential example

    Letter
    Thu 31 Jul 2014

    The New Zealand Government has the goal of becoming a Smokefree Nation by 2025.

  • Smokefree 2025 – use of mass media in New Zealand lacks alignment with evidence and needs

    Letter
    Wed 25 Jun 2014

    A steady decline in funding for mass media campaigns to promote smoking reduction is undermining the Government’s goal to achieve a smokefree New Zealand by 2025, warn ASPIRE2025 researchers in a l

  • Public Attitudes to New Smokefree Outdoor Places Policies in New Zealand: An Analysis of 217 Online Comments

    Letter
    Tue 15 Apr 2014

    Because of the growing interest in smokefree outdoor policies internationally, and the restricted qualitative evidence about attitudes to them, we investigated whether online material cou

  • The need for sustainable regulation of tobacco products

    Letter
    Tue 18 Mar 2014

    In this letter published in the British Medical Journal, ASPIRE2025 researchers discuss New Zealand’s new Psychoactive Substances Act and say that few of the restrictions in this new act apply to t

  • Survey of smoking areas at bars in central Wellington City: scope for further hazard reduction?

    Letter
    Thu 19 Dec 2013

    The Ministry of Health guidelines for what can be considered ‘outside’ of bars were declared invalid by a court decision in September 2013.

  • Missed tobacco tax revenue from ‘foreign’ packs in New Zealand: Results from a discarded pack collection study

    Letter
    Tue 26 Nov 2013

    The New Zealand Government is losing up to $89.1 million per annum in tax revenue due to tobacco brought in to the country from overseas, ASPIRE 2025 researchers estimate.

  • Updating New Zealand’s national smokefree law to reduce anomalies and improve health protection

    Letter
    Tue 22 Oct 2013

    In this NZ Medical Journal letter from ASPIRE2025 researchers George Thomson and Nick Wilson, they discuss the status of the New Zealand’s national smokefree law and the need for an upgrade and exp

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