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ASPIRE2025 co-directors, Professors Janet Hoek and Richard Edwards, welcome the introduction of standardised packaging and congratulate Dame Tariana Turia for her

The NZ Ministry of Health is currently consulting on options around making nicotine-containing e-cigarettes available in NZ.

The following submission was made by ASPIRE2025 in June 2016:

Smoke-free (Standardisation of Tobacco Packaging and Tobacco Products) Regulations – June 2016

Co-directors of ASPIRE 2025 Richard Edwards and Janet Hoek together with Natalie Walker, Chris Bullen and Robert Beaglehole of the University of Auckland have co-authored this new document outlinin

The hardening hypothesis suggests that as smoking prevalence declines, the remaining smokers will be the more addicted ones who are less likely to quit. But does the NZ evidence support this?

This study led by ASPIRE2025 tobacco control researchers describes recent smoking trends in New Zealand and shows that our Smokefree2025 goal will not be reached with a ‘business as usual’ approach

In this viewpoint article, University of Otago researchers, led by Public Health lawyer Louise Delany, propose a comprehensive new law to help New Zealand reach the government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

Tobacco control advocates have proposed a range of policies to reduce tobacco retail outlet density, as part of endgame strategies.

The hardening hypothesis proposes that as smoking prevalence declines the proportion of ‘hardcore’ or ‘hardened’ smokers will increase.

This blog considers recent studies in which the biomarker levels in e-cigarette users (vapers) are compared to those from tobacco smokers.