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    • Our people
    • Our students
    • Our partners & associates
    • Statement about the tobacco industry
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      • Whakahā o Te Pā Harakeke
      • Adolescent Friendships & Lifestyles Study
      • Betwixt two worlds? Disruptive technology and negotiating identity change
      • Clean teens: Understanding declines in smoking, drinking and drug use in young people's lives
      • Developing optimal strategies to support smoking cessation among RYO users
      • INSPIRED
      • Te Ara Auahi Kore
    • Student research
      • An analysis of Twitter commentary and World Vape Day
      • Perceptions of the Smokefree 2025 goal among smokers experiencing disadvantage
      • Pharmacists’ views of supplying tobacco
      • Social supply of tobacco among Pacific young people
      • Young adults’ perceptions of the Smokefree generation proposal
  • Research Outputs
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    • Other outputs
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      • Action Plan for Smokefree Aotearoa 2025
      • Tobacco Control journal 30th anniversary issue
      • Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS)
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  • Whakahā o Te Pā Harakeke

    This five-year research programme comprises three whenu that collectively aim to reduce smoking disparities by accelerating progress towards a Smokefree Aotearoa.
  • Adolescent Friendships & Lifestyles Study 2.0: Understanding declines in smoking, drinking and drug use in young people's lives.

    This qualitative study investigates the dramatic decline of smoking, drinking and drug use among adolescents to determine the drivers of this ‘megatrend.’
  • Betwixt two worlds? Disruptive technology and negotiating identity change

    The study investigated how people who smoke negotiated new identity positions and the practices they retained, created or relinquished as they began vaping.
  • Developing optimal strategies to support smoking cessation among RYO users

    This project examines how tailored RYO pictorial warnings and efficacy messages, developed using insights from whānau interviews, influence cessation-related beliefs and choices among people who use RYO tobacco.
  • EASE/ITC Study

    EASE is Aotearoa’s International Tobacco Control (ITC) project, a health study which aims to support Aotearoa New Zealand’s Smokefree 2025 goal.
  • INSPIRED

    INSPIRED is a collaborative project across the first six countries to adopt government-endorsed endgame goals for smoking: Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada, Finland, Ireland, Scotland, and Sweden.
  • Te Ara Auahi Kore

    Te Ara Auahi Kore (TAKe) is a series of studies that provide much needed high quality evidence for addressing smoking disparities between Māori and non-Māori.
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