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Australia's new smokefree policies will change tobacco packages and sticks, but could they have gone further?

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

Investigations of smoking initiation often focus on the experiences of children and youth.

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.

This article in the NZ Herald, shares the very important views of Robert Beaglehole and Richard Edwards.

This study examines young New Zealand smokers’ views of what would help them quit smoking.

In this Public Health Expert blog, Dr Ninya Maubach asks why regulators are prepared to introduce regulation that protects children in the event of a car crash, but are unwilling to protect them fr

In this interview on Radio New Zealand’s morning report, ASPIRE2025 researchers Dan Tautolo, Richard Edwards and Stephanie Erick say cheap, duty-free tobacco and cultural pressures to give gifts of

It was great to see so many at Smokefree Oceania last week.

In this blog in Public Health Expert, Tony Blakely and Nick Wilson discuss what it would take in the way of reductions in uptake (or initiation), and/or increases in cessation rates, to achieve the