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

This research shows the potential for community campaigns to reduce smoking in cars, but legislation is still critical to ensure children are protected.

Every now and then when discussing New Zealand’s Smokefree 2025 goal, plain packaging or some other policy measure, the question will come up – ‘well why don’t you just ban it?’

There have been only two studies of the smoking prevalence outside bars/cafe´s worldwide, both undertaken in Australia.

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

The media are among the most powerful sources of influence in modern society, and media coverage can help determine what readers perceive as the ‘norm’, and what we view as being ‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘im

What do tobacco retailers think about selling tobacco? How do they feel about the point of sale display ban and other tobacco control interventions?

A study of eight restaurants in downtown Wellington City suggests outdoor secondhand smoke drifts indoors and is trapped inside.

This new New Zealand study on cigarette butt accumulation in bus shelters & at bus stops – provides a method for evaluating such settings when they become smokefree.

Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is the mainstay of pharmacological cessation therapy in New Zealand, and nicotine gum, lozenges and patches are provided free to all smokers.