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
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.
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