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New Zealand children and teens growing up in smokefree homes are less likely to take up smoking, even if their parents are smokers, this ASPIRE2025 study has found.

From March 14, 2018, all tobacco products in New Zealand will start appearing in standardised, or plain, packages.

This study, led by University of Otago in collaboration with the Health Promotion Agency, examined recent smoking trends among doctors and nurses in New Zealand using recent census data.

A lack of support means many prisoners relapse back to smoking on release, despite many wanting to stay smokefree, this new study has found.

Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) arguably pose fewer health risks than smoking, yet many smokers adopt ENDS without fully relinquishing smoking.

Although most smokers want to quit, many of those who begin vaping continue to smoke.

ASPIRE 2025, together with colleagues formerly from the Health Promotion Agency, have a new paper published in the NZMJ on smoking prevalence from the 2013 Census.

The COP7 (Conference of the Parties 7) for the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control was held in November in Delhi, India.

Many thanks to all who attended the ASPIRE-NIHI Smokefree2025 Research symposium in Wellington on 26 October.

The NZ Ministry of Health is currently reviewing public submissions on options that would allow nicotine-containing e-cigarettes to be sold legally in NZ.