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Blog | Social Marketing for Smokefree Aotearoa 2025: Reminding, Reinforcing, and Changing Social Norms

If social marketing can facilitate and reinforce population-level behaviour, then what is the role of social marketing in supporting the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 goal?

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Blog | The Case for Banning Cigarette Filters: Addressing a Consumer Fraud, Smoking Decoy and Environmental Hazard

In this latest blog, we examine the NZ Government’s specific proposal to prohibit filters and disallow innovations, additives, and other product changes that sustain the appeal and addictiveness of smoked tobacco products.

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Blog | Phasing out smoking: The Tobacco-Free Generation policy

In this blog we take a closer look at the tobacco-free generation policy. This is one of the key ideas proposed in the Government's action plan, so what does this mean and what is the likely impact on achieving the Smokefree 2025 goal?

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Blog | Tobacco Excise Taxes and the Smokefree 2025 Goal: Some Ways Forward

In this blog, ASPIRE researchers, Janet Hoek, Richard Edwards, George Thomson, Andrew Waa, Nick Wilson, explore how allocating a proportion of tobacco tax revenue to assist smokers, and funding other complementary measures, could help avoid unintended outcomes and support continuation of an effective policy intervention.

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Article | How would the tobacco retail landscape change if tobacco was only sold through liquor stores, petrol stations or pharmacies?

This article, published today in the Australian and New Zealand Medical Journal of Public Health, undertook a geospatial analysis of policy options for restricting tobacco policy in New Zealand. The research examines the potential impact of tobacco being available only from pharmacies, only from liquor stores, or only from petrol stations.

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