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Just posted is a new Public Health Expert blog on this week’s Juridical Ruling on the Calculator used to determine “Open Areas” where smoking is permitted: The need for an expanded national sm

A recent ASPIRE2025 study used ASH Y10 data to examine New Zealand adolescents’ support for plain packaging.

To extend the limited international evidence on youth in-vehicle second-hand smoke (SHS) exposure by examining trends in New Zealand, a country with a national smoke-free goal

Research into endgame solutions to the tobacco epidemic is an important area of investigation for ASPIRE2025.

In this blog on Public Health Expert, Janet Hoek writes that it is now time to reduce the number and density of retail outlets selling tobacco. 

Improving social circumstances (eg, an increase in income, finding a job or moving into a good neighbourhood) may reduce tobacco use, but robust evidence on the effects of suc

A New Zealand randomized trial of e-cigarettes just published in the prestigious Lancet journal has been touted in the media as showing how good e-cigarettes are for people wanting to quit smoking.

Using data on known tobacco outlets throughout NZ, GIS was used to map outlets, deprivation and secondary schools.

The theme of the 10th APACT conference held in Japan from 18-21 August, 2013, was “Ending the Tobacco Epidemic – Protecting and Keeping Healthy Lives”

Despite reduced smoking among adolescents, smoking prevalence peaks among young adults aged 18–30, many of whom believe themselves exempt from the health risks of smoking sho