News

To celebrate World No Tobacco Day on May 31st, a special online edition of Tobacco Control journal is being released highlighting a selection of leading international research.

ASPIRE2025 Director, Professor Richard Edwards is quoted in todays media regarding the University of Otago, Wellington’s submission to the Wellington City Council to introduce a number of smoking b

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.

One possible supply-side strategy for the tobacco endgame is a government-mandated ‘sinking lid’ on tobacco supply (tradeable but decreasing quotas on sales or imports).

The New Zealand government’s announcement that it will bring in legislation for plain cigarette packs is a welcome public health development.

We have great pleasure in presenting the ASPIRE2025 research theme’s Annual Report for 2012.

This study sought to examine young New Zealand smokers’ access to social supplies of cigarettes.

This news article in the British Medical Journal discusses the New Zealand goverments decision to move ahead with plain packaging of cigarettes.

The 2013 International  Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) saw Richard Edwards and Andrew Waa present recent research on behalf of the ASPIRE2025 team.

The video recording and presentation slides are now available to members of the tobacco control sector, for this ASPIRE2025 seminar, held in Wellington on February 13th.