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Important sources of cigarettes for youth smokers include purchase in shops (retail supply) or access via friends, peers, and family members (social supply).

In this study by ASPIRE2025 researchers, the findings show support among young people for New Zealand’s smoke-free goal and interventions that could help achieve it; this evidence should galvanise

We invite you to take a look at the ASPIRE2025 research theme’s Annual Report for 2013.

To examine the prevalence of smoking amongst a cohort of Pacific fathers and mothers from birth up to 11 years after the birth of their child.

What is the level of support for a total smokefree campus policy and other smokefree policy initiatives, amongst NZ university staff and students?

Because of the growing interest in smokefree outdoor policies internationally, and the restricted qualitative evidence about attitudes to them, we investigated whether online material cou

High smoking rates among Pacific people living within New Zealand (26.9%) are a significant and poorly understood problem.

Smoking in downtown Wellington is highly visible outside bars and cafes, and could be giving the perception that lighting up is socially acceptable.

In this letter published in the British Medical Journal, ASPIRE2025 researchers discuss New Zealand’s new Psychoactive Substances Act and say that few of the restrictions in this new act apply to t

Prof Janet Hoek defends the University of Otago’s smoke-free policy from criticism it impinges on minority freedoms.