Leading researchers from ASPIRE2025 warmly congratulate the government on announcing that it will pass standardised packaging legislation within the year.
Once a leader on tobacco regulation, NewZealand has fallen behind, write ASPIRE2025 co-directors, Richard Edwards and Janet Hoek in this opinion piece.
This study was carried out by fourth year medical students at the University of Otago, Wellington under the supervision of ASPIRE2025 researchers, Nick Wilson and George Thomson.
The 2013 International Meeting of the SRNT was held in Boston, USA in March 2013. Attendees from NZ included ASPIRE2025’s director, Professor Richard Edwards and researcher, Anaru Waa.