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'Smoke gets in your eyes': a research-informed professional education and advocacy programme.

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'The times are changing': New Zealand smokers' perceptions of the tobacco endgame

scientific article published on 16 June 2012

A cross-sectional analysis of how young adults perceive tobacco brands: implications for FCTC signatories.

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A decade of tobacco control efforts in New Zealand (1996-2006): impacts on inequalities in census-derived smoking prevalence

scientific article published on 21 December 2011

A design fault in New Zealand's health research funding system exposed by pandemic influenza

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A gift and a burden: the purchase and distribution of duty-free tobacco and its potential impact upon Pacific people in New Zealand

scientific article published on 17 March 2014

A new national smokefree law increased calls to a national quitline

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A new opportunity to eliminate policy incoherence in tobacco control in New Zealand

scientific article published on 19 March 2010

A persisting secondhand smoke hazard in urban public places: results from fine particulate (PM2.5) air sampling

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A pilot study of medical student attitudes to, and use of, commercial movies that address public health issues

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A qualitative analysis of 'informed choice' among young adult smokers.

scientific article published on 5 September 2014

A qualitative analysis of Māori and Pacific smokers' views on informed choice and smoking

scientific article published on 17 May 2016

A qualitative case study of policy maker views about the protection of children from smoking in cars

scientific article published on 9 August 2010

Achieving the tobacco endgame: evidence on the hardening hypothesis from repeated cross-sectional studies in New Zealand 2008-2014.

scientific article published on 5 July 2016

Actual and potential use of Google Street View for studying tobacco issues: a brief review

scientific article published on 30 June 2017

Addressing ethnic disparities in adolescent smoking: Is reducing exposure to smoking in the home a key?

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

After the smoke has cleared: evaluation of the impact of a new national smoke-free law in New Zealand

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Age related macular degeneration: smoking entails major risk of blindness

scientific article published on June 2003

An action plan for tobacco control at regional level

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An action plan for tobacco control at regional level

An examination of smoking initiation rates by age: results from a large longitudinal study in New Zealand

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Analysis of the logic and framing of a tobacco industry campaign opposing standardised packaging legislation in New Zealand

scientific article published on 30 September 2016

Anthropometry measures and prevalence of obesity in the urban adult population of Cameroon: an update from the Cameroon Burden of Diabetes Baseline Survey

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Are pharmacists reducing COPD'S impact through smoking cessation and assessing inhaled steroid use?

scientific article published on 07 September 2011

Are smoke-free policies good for business?

scientific article published in December 2002

Are smoke-free policies good for business?

scientific article published in February 2003

Assessing the impact of heart failure specialist services on patient populations

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At the frontier of tobacco control: a brief review of public attitudes toward smoke-free outdoor places

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Attitudes and behaviour of ophthalmologists to smoking cessation.

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Attitudes to smoke-free outdoor regulations in the USA and Canada: a review of 89 surveys

scientific article published on 14 September 2015

Beneficial impacts of a national smokefree environments law on an indigenous population: a multifaceted evaluation

scientific article published on 30 April 2009

Better Help for Smokers to Quit targets need evaluation and integration with community-based services

scientific article published on 27 January 2017

COVID-19 and tobacco - more questions than answers

scientific article published on 15 July 2020

Campylobacter infection and chicken: an update on New Zealand's largest 'common source outbreak'

scientific article published on 7 September 2007

Cardiovascular effects of exposure to air pollution

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Case-case analysis of enteric diseases with routine surveillance data: Potential use and example results

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Characteristics of smoker support for increasing a dedicated tobacco tax: national survey data from New Zealand

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Children's and parents' opinions on the sport-related food environment: a systematic review.

scientific article published on 31 May 2017

Cigarette smoking and primary open angle glaucoma: a systematic review

scientific article published on October 2008

Communicating risks at the population level: application of population impact numbers

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Comparison of processes and intermediate outcomes between South Asian and European patients with diabetes in Blackburn, north-west England

scientific article published in September 2005

Competing teammates: food in New Zealand sports settings

scientific article published on 1 August 2019

Could New Zealand's law on "New Psychoactive Substances" provide lessons for achieving the Smokefree 2025 Goal?

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Crossing the smoking divide for young adults: expressions of stigma and identity among smokers and nonsmokers

scientific article published on 4 September 2012

Daring to dream: reactions to tobacco endgame ideas among policy-makers, media and public health practitioners

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Declining adolescent cannabis use occurred across all demographic groups and was accompanied by declining use of other psychoactive drugs, New Zealand, 2001-2012

scientific article published on 16 August 2019

Differences in immune responses between CMV-seronegative and -seropositive patients with myocardial ischemia and reperfusion.

scientific article published on March 2015

Distribution of new graphic warning labels: Are tobacco companies following regulations?

scientific article published on 25 August 2009

Does living near heavy industry cause lung cancer in women? A case-control study using life grid interviews

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Does long term residency near industry have an impact on the body burden of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, furans, and polychlorinated biphenyls in older women?

scientific article published on December 2005

E-cigarettes, vaping and a Smokefree Aotearoa: where to next?

scientific article published on 26 June 2020

Economic evaluation of the removal of tobacco promotional displays in Ireland

scientific article published on 18 November 2010

Economics can be good for health: need for rational policy without the influence of vested interests

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Effect of Exposure to Smoking in Movies on Young Adult Smoking in New Zealand

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Eliminating tobacco point of sale displays: removing the retail detail from the devil

scientific article published on 4 November 2011

End-of-term brief review of the New Zealand Government's actions on five major health risk factors

scientific article published on October 14, 2011

Ending appreciable tobacco use in a nation: using a sinking lid on supply

scientific article published on 1 October 2010

Erratum to: The association of active smoking with multiple cancers: national census-cancer registry cohorts with quantitative bias analysis

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Estimating missed government tax revenue from foreign tobacco: survey of discarded cigarette packs

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Estimating the ‘consumer surplus’ for branded versus standardised tobacco packaging

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Evaluation of the removal of point-of-sale tobacco displays in Ireland.

scientific article published on 18 November 2010

Evidence and arguments on tobacco retail displays: marketing an addictive drug to children?

scientific article published on 20 June 2008

Factors influencing the smoking status of ex-prisoners reintegrating into the community after release: a pilot study

Fifty years since the Royal College Report: more action needed to achieve the "Smokefree New Zealand by 2025" goal

scientific article published on 9 March 2012

Food, fizzy, and football: promoting unhealthy food and beverages through sport - a New Zealand case study

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Funding community medicines by exception: a descriptive epidemiological study from New Zealand

scientific article published on February 24, 2012

Getting there together: highlights, challenges and opportunities for tobacco control in the Oceania region

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Going smoke-free: the medical case for clean air in the home, at work and in public places

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Good smokefree law compliance in rural pubs in New Zealand: results from fine particulate (PM2.5) air sampling

scientific article published on April 15, 2011

Government paralysis? Stable tobacco prices mean preventable deaths and disease persist, along with health inequalities in New Zealand

scientific article published on 23 January 2010

Hardening is dead, long live softening; time to focus on reducing disparities in smoking

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

Has the time come to focus on (young adult) smoking uptake prevention?

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

Hazardous patterns of alcohol use are relatively common in smokers: ITC Project (New Zealand)

scientific article published on January 20, 2012

Health co-benefits of climate change mitigation policies in the transport sector

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High and increased support by Māori and non-Māori smokers for a ban on point-of-sale tobacco displays: national survey data

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High levels of smoker regret by ethnicity and socioeconomic status: national survey data

scientific article published on 3 April 2009

High support for a tobacco endgame by Pacific peoples who smoke: national survey data

scientific article published on 10 June 2010

Highly hazardous air quality associated with smoking in cars: New Zealand pilot study

scientific article published on 27 October 2006

How adolescents view the tobacco endgame and tobacco control measures: trends and associations in support among 14-15 year olds.

scientific article published on 2 May 2014

How do New Zealand youth perceive the smoke-free generation policy? A qualitative analysis

scientific article published on 25 October 2022

How do adolescents perceive plain packaging?

scientific article published on 27 September 2013

How do tobacco retail displays affect cessation attempts? Findings from a qualitative study.

scientific article published in August 2010

How to substantially increase recruitment in cancer trials in New Zealand

scientific article published on 30 August 2013

If nobody smoked tobacco in New Zealand from 2020 onwards, what effect would this have on ethnic inequalities in life expectancy?

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Impact of removing point-of-sale tobacco displays: data from a New Zealand youth survey

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Impact of upward social mobility on population mortality: analysis with routine data.

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Implementing guidelines in primary care: can population impact measures help?

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Improving care in cardiac rehabilitation for minority ethnic populations

scientific article published on 24 April 2010

In sight, in mind: retailer compliance with legislation on limiting retail tobacco displays

scientific article published in August 2008

Increased smoker recognition of a national quitline number following introduction of improved pack warnings: ITC Project New Zealand

scientific article published in October 2010

Indoor air pollution levels were halved as a result of a national tobacco ban in a New Zealand prison

scientific article published on 15 May 2012

Is New Zealand lagging behind other OECD countries in measures to reduce alcohol-related harm?

scientific article published on August 27, 2010

Is the NZ Government responding adequately to the Māori Affairs Select Committee's 2010 recommendations on tobacco control? A brief review

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Key design features of a new smokefree law to help achieve the Smokefree Aotearoa

scientific article published on 5 August 2016

Kiwi support for the end of tobacco sales: New Zealand governments lag behind public support for advanced tobacco control policies

scientific article published on 29 January 2010

Lessons for the criminal justice process from evidence-based medical practice?

scientific article published on 23 March 2007

Lessons from Hong Kong and other countries for outdoor smokefree areas in New Zealand?

scientific article published on 29 June 2007

Lessons from New Zealand's introduction of pictorial health warnings on tobacco packaging

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Letter. Academic training in public health medicine in the UK: findings from an electronic mail census

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Levels of second hand smoke in pubs and bars by deprivation and food-serving status: a cross-sectional study from North West England

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Local Versus General Anesthesia in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

scientific article published on 30 August 2016

Long-term benefit of increasing the prominence of a quitline number on cigarette packaging: 3 years of Quitline call data

scientific article published on 27 August 2010

Low and declining cigarette smoking rates among doctors and nurses: 2006 New Zealand Census data

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Low-dose spiral computed tomography for lung-cancer screening

scientific article published in The Lancet

Majority of smokers and non-smokers in favour of smokefree parks in New Zealand

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Majority support among the public, youth and smokers for retail-level controls to help end tobacco use in New Zealand

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Majority support by Maori and non-Maori smokers for many aspects of increased tobacco control regulation: national survey data

scientific article published on 11 December 2009

Marketing tobacco to New Zealand women: 8 ways to reflect on "World No Tobacco Day"

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Misperceptions of "light" cigarettes abound: national survey data

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Missed tobacco tax revenue from 'foreign' packs in New Zealand: results from a discarded pack collection study

scientific article published on 22 November 2013

Modelling of tobacco endgame interventions: a response

scientific article published on 4 December 2015

Modelling the number of quitters needed to achieve New Zealand's Smokefree 2025 goal for Māori and non-Māori

scientific article published on 14 December 2018

Most New Zealand smokers support having fire-safe cigarettes: national survey data

scientific article published on 28 November 2008

Most smokers support smokefree council-owned playgrounds: national survey data

scientific article published on 13 March 2009

National smokefree law in New Zealand improves air quality inside bars, pubs and restaurants

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New Research on Secondhand Smoke: Implications for Research and Practice.

scientific article published in November 2016

New Zealand tobacco retailers' attitudes to selling tobacco, point-of-sale display bans and other tobacco control measures: a qualitative analysis

scientific article published on 20 June 2014

New Zealand's smokefree prison policy appears to be working well: one year on

scientific article published on June 29, 2012

Ninety-six percent of New Zealand smokers support smokefree cars containing preschool children

scientific article published on 7 November 2008

Outcomes of Direct Flow Medical vs Sapien 3 Transcatheter Aortic Valve Devices

scientific article published on 17 December 2019

Overwhelming support for smokefree cars that are carrying children-is the Government listening?

scientific article published on 10 November 2017

Parental behaviours, but not parental smoking, influence current smoking and smoking susceptibility among 14 and 15 year-old children

scientific article published on 4 November 2011

Patchy advances in child health hide a systematic failure to prioritise children in public policy

scientific article published on 17 February 2017

Patterns of Use of Vaping Products Among Smokers: Findings from the 2016-2018 International Tobacco Control (ITC) New Zealand Surveys

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

Perceptions of blindness related to smoking: a hospital-based cross-sectional study

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Plain packaging for tobacco in New Zealand: local evidence and arguments

scientific article published on 8 July 2011

Planning to win: Health and lifestyles associated with physical activity amongst 15,423 adults

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Pleasure or pain? A profile of smokers in Northern England.

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Point of sale tobacco displays and smoking among 14-15 year olds in New Zealand: a cross-sectional study

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Poorer mental health in many New Zealand smokers: national survey data from the ITC Project

scientific article published on 26 November 2010

Population Impact Analysis: a framework for assessing the population impact of a risk or intervention

scientific article published on 11 April 2011

Posting behaviour patterns in an online smoking cessation social network: implications for intervention design and development.

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Potential advantages and disadvantages of an endgame strategy: a 'sinking lid' on tobacco supply

scientific article (publication date: May 2013)

Potential new regulatory options for e-cigarettes in New Zealand

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Prevalence of awareness, ever-use and current use of nicotine vaping products (NVPs) among adult current smokers and ex-smokers in 14 countries with differing regulations on sales and marketing of NVPs: cross-sectional findings from the ITC Project

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Prevalence of e-cigarette use from a nationally representative sample in New Zealand

scientific article published on 13 June 2019

Prevalence, correlates of, and reasons for using roll-your-own tobacco in a high RYO use country: findings from the ITC New Zealand survey

scientific article published on 16 September 2010

Prioritising between direct observation of therapy and case-finding interventions for tuberculosis: use of population impact measures

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Process, pitfalls and profits: lessons from interviewing New Zealand policy-makers

scientific article published on 19 August 2016

Properties of "light" cigarettes sold in New Zealand.

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Proposed new industry code on unhealthy food marketing to children and young people: will it make a difference?

scientific article published on 17 February 2017

Public health in Primary Care Trusts: a resource needs assessment

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Public support for more action on smoking

scientific article published on 31 May 2013

Public, private and personal: qualitative research on policymakers' opinions on smokefree interventions to protect children in 'private' spaces

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Qualitative exploration of public and smoker understanding of, and reactions to, an endgame solution to the tobacco epidemic

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Realignment of tobacco control services-will it be sufficient to achieve the nation's Smokefree 2025 Goal?

scientific article published on 1 May 2015

Reasons for stopping e-cigarette use among smokers: findings from the 2018 ITC New Zealand Survey

scientific article published on 9 October 2020

Recent changes in cigarette packaging in New Zealand may continue to mislead smokers

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Regulating tobacco retail in New Zealand: what can we learn from overseas?

scientific article published in April 2016

Research outputs by medical students from routine public health training projects

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Response to Paynter and Chapman’s letter, “Is censorship of films a useful solution to the problem of covert tobacco advertising?”

scientific article published in June 2013

Restrictions impeding web-based courses: a survey of publishers' variation in authorising access to high quality on-line literature

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Revascularization of kidney allograft after renal artery occlusion secondary to angioplasty

scientific article published in September 2007

Risk Factors for Acute Rheumatic Fever: Literature Review and Protocol for a Case-Control Study in New Zealand

scientific article published on 15 November 2019

Risk factors for cryptorchidism

scientific article published on 27 June 2017

Roll your own cigarettes are less natural and at least as harmful as factory rolled tobacco

scientific article published on 11 February 2014

Rural and urban differences in diabetes prevalence in Tanzania: the role of obesity, physical inactivity and urban living

scientific article published on November 2000

Selective dorsal rhizotomy in ambulant children with cerebral palsy: an observational cohort study

scientific article published on 30 April 2019

Setting a good example? Changes in smoking prevalence among key occupational groups in New Zealand: evidence from the 1981 and 2006 censuses

scientific article published on 2 December 2011

Shock-index as a novel predictor of long-term outcome following primary percutaneous coronary intervention

scientific article published on 25 November 2014

Should New Zealand's Commerce Commission act on cigarette brand name deception?

scientific article published on 27 October 2006

Should e-cigarette use be included in indoor smoking bans?

scientific article published on 28 April 2017

Should smoking in outside public spaces be banned? Yes

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Smoke-free cars legislation: it works but New Zealand should still rigorously evaluate its upcoming law

scientific article published on 21 August 2020

Smokefree 2025 - use of mass media in New Zealand lacks alignment with evidence and needs

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Smokefree 2025: patterns and trends in references to the smokefree goal in political speeches and press releases

scientific article published on 18 July 2014

Smokefree cars to protect children and denormalise smoking: a mini-review of New Zealand literature

scientific article published on May 25, 2012

Smoker (mis)perceptions associated with pack colouring: national survey data

scientific article published on 13 August 2010

Smoker interest in lower harm alternatives to cigarettes: national survey data

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Smoker misperceptions around tobacco: national survey data of particular relevance to protecting Maori health

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Smoker support for increased (if dedicated) tobacco tax by individual deprivation level: national survey data

scientific article published in December 2009

Smokers commonly misperceive that nicotine is a major carcinogen: national survey data

scientific article published on 29 September 2010

Smokers have varying misperceptions about the harmfulness of menthol cigarettes: national survey data

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Smoking and age-related macular degeneration: a review of association.

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Smoking and blindness

scientific article published in March 2004

Smoking and cataract: review of causal association.

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Smoking in children's films--covert tobacco advertising causing smoking uptake or much ado about nothing?

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Smoking outdoors at pubs and bars: is it a problem? An air quality study

scientific article published on December 16, 2011

Smoking prevalence among doctors and nurses-2013 New Zealand census data

scientific article published on 9 March 2018

Smoking prevalence in New Zealand from 1996-2015: a critical review of national data sources to inform progress toward the Smokefree 2025 goal

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Smoking status and mortality outcomes following percutaneous coronary intervention

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Smoking, smoking cessation, and use of smoking cessation aids and support services in South Derbyshire, England.

scientific article published on 6 March 2007

Social smokers' management of conflicted identities.

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Socio-demographic characteristics of New Zealand adult smokers, ex-smokers and non-smokers: results from the 2013 Census

scientific article published on 16 December 2016

Spousal smoking as an indicator of total secondhand smoke exposure

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Standardised (plain) packaging: the time for implementation has come

scientific article published on 3 July 2015

Strong public support for plain packaging of tobacco products

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Strong smoker interest in 'setting an example to children' by quitting: national survey data

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Support by New Zealand smokers for new types of smokefree areas: national survey data

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Support for a tobacco endgame and increased regulation of the tobacco industry among New Zealand smokers: results from a National Survey

scientific article published on 25 April 2012

Survey of descriptors on cigarette packs: still misleading consumers?

scientific article published on 25 September 2009

Surveys show exposure to smoking in cars among Year 10 children is not decreasing: time for the Government to act

scientific article published on 7 July 2017

Tackling the emerging pandemic of non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa

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Tackling the emerging pandemic of non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: the essential NCD health intervention project.

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Taxes for health: the argument is more about health than economics

scientific article published on 26 October 2007

Teaching international health issues to medical students

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Teenagers' perceptions of blindness related to smoking: a novel message to a vulnerable group

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Testicular Cancer in New Zealand (TCNZ) study: protocol for a national case-control study

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The Government's Goal for a Smokefree New Zealand by 2025: more decisions, and more detail, are urgently needed

scientific article published on 25 March 2011

The Maori Affairs Select Committee Inquiry and the road to a smokefree Aotearoa

scientific article published on November 26, 2010

The Smokefree 2025 goal: an opportunity for the new government

scientific article published on 22 June 2018

The association of active smoking with multiple cancers: national census-cancer registry cohorts with quantitative bias analysis

scientific article published on 12 April 2013

The impact of racism on the future health of adults: protocol for a prospective cohort study

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The importance of tobacco prices to roll-your-own (RYO) smokers (national survey data): higher tax needed on RYO

scientific article published on 30 October 2009

The important persisting problem of smoking in cars with children: new data from a multi-year national survey of young people

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The need for sustainable regulation of tobacco products

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

The pitfalls of measuring changes in smoking habits. Essential NCD Health Intervention Project Team.

scientific article published in July 2000

The potential of Google Street View for studying smokefree signage

scientific article published on 22 April 2015

The prevalence of misleading tobacco descriptors in the New Zealand tobacco market

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Tobacco branding, plain packaging, pictorial warnings, and symbolic consumption

scientific article published on 27 December 2011

Tobacco control in New Zealand: top marks for new smoking cessation guidelines, must try harder elsewhere

scientific article published on 20 June 2008

Tobacco excise taxes: a health and social justice measure?

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

Tobacco retail displays: a comparison of industry arguments and retailers' experiences

scientific article published on 17 August 2011

Tobacco smoke pollution associated with Irish pubs in New Zealand: fine particulate (PM2.5) air sampling

scientific article published on June 8, 2012

Tobacco smoking, harm reduction, and nicotine product regulation

scientific article published on 24 October 2007

Tobacco-free countries: could Pacific Island countries lead the way?

scientific article published on 30 November 2007

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation in an orthotopic heart transplant recipient with bicuspid aortic valve

scientific article published on 17 October 2018

Use of a national quitline and variation in use by smoker characteristics: ITC Project New Zealand

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Use of four major tobacco control interventions in New Zealand: a review

scientific article published on 20 June 2008

Variations in process and outcomes of diabetes care by socio-economic status in Salford, UK

scientific article (publication date: June 2003)

What are the elements of the tobacco endgame?

scientific article published in March 2012

What does the 2025 Smokefree Goal mean to the New Zealand public?

scientific article published on 28 November 2014

What explains the decline in adolescent binge-drinking in New Zealand?

scientific article published on 25 July 2020

What is behind smoker support for new smokefree areas? National survey data

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What's new in tobacco tax research for New Zealand and is it time for a tax hike now?

scientific article published on 24 April 2009

Why New Zealand must rapidly halve its greenhouse gas emissions

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Why has adolescent smoking declined dramatically? Trend analysis using repeat cross-sectional data from New Zealand 2002-2015

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Will changes in primary care improve health outcomes? Modelling the impact of financial incentives introduced to improve quality of care in the UK

scientific article (publication date: June 2004)

Young Adults’ Interpretations of Tobacco Brands: Implications for Tobacco Control

scientific article published on 26 May 2011

Youth Preferences for Roll-Your-Own Versus Factory-Made Cigarettes: Trends and Associations in Repeated National Surveys (2006-2013) and Implications for Policy.

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Youth exposure to in-vehicle second-hand smoke and their smoking behaviours: trends and associations in repeated national surveys (2006-2012).

scientific article published on 17 September 2013

Youth tobacco access: trends and policy implications.

scientific article published on 17 April 2014