Media releases
26 Nov 2010
The tobacco report: A kaupapa to save 5000 lives a year
An editorial in today’s New Zealand Medical Journal describes the recent Māori A...
15 Oct 2010
Clash of views on healthy food labelling
Food manufacturers and the public health sector are at loggerheads over front-of...
08 Sep 2010
Landmark Aust. study on cost-effectiveness of preventing disease – New Zealand has much to learn
New Zealand has much to learn from an Australian programme of research on the co...
28 May 2010
New Zealand women targeted by tobacco companies
Despite the passing of the Smoke-free Environments Act in 1990 restricting adver...
29 Jan 2010
New tobacco tax strategy needed to reduce smoking
Efforts to reduce smoking in New Zealand have been undermined since 2001 by incr...
29 Jan 2010
New Zealanders support an end to all tobacco sales by 2020
New research just published in the NZMJ shows strong support for an end to tobac...
19 Oct 2009
Comprehensive health recommendations published
An innovative University of Otago research project aimed at improving the oral h...
24 Sep 2009
Smokefree parks are working without smoke police
07 Aug 2009
Smoking ban in cars supported by all types of smokers
A clear majority of New Zealand smokers across all socio-economic and ethnic gro...
04 Aug 2009
Litter study identifies missed tobacco tax revenue
The Government may be missing out on at least $36 million dollars of tax because...
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