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ArticleThe New Zealand medical journal2025

Support for and likely impacts of endgame measures in the Smokefree Aotearoa Action Plan: findings from the 2020-2021 International Tobacco Control New Zealand (EASE) surveys.

Janine Nip, James Stanley, Jane Zhang, Andrew Waa, Jude Ball, El-Shadan Tautolo, Ellie Johnson, Thomas K Agar, Anne Ck Quah, Geoffrey T Fong and 1 more

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Article in The New Zealand medical journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Australian Women's Perspectives on Preventing Postpartum Relapse or Quitting Smoking or Vaping in the Postpartum Year.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Janine NipResearch Fellow, Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington, Wellington.
James StanleyProfessor, Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington, Wellington.
Jane ZhangResearch Fellow, Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington, Wellington.
Andrew WaaA/Professor, Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington, Wellington.
Jude BallSenior Research Fellow, Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington, Wellington.
El-Shadan TautoloProfessor, Centre for Pacific Health and Development Research, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
Ellie JohnsonResearch Fellow, Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington, Wellington.
Thomas K AgarResearch Associate, Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Anne Ck QuahITC Managing Director and Senior Research Scientist, Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Geoffrey T FongProfessor and Founder and Chief Principal Investigator of the ITC Project, Department of Psychology, and School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; Senior Investigator, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Richard EdwardsProfessor, Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington, Wellington.

Funding

Vaporized Nicotine Product Initiation Among Youth in the US, Canada, and England: Methods to Predict Uptake and Policy EfficacyP01CA200512 · NCI · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI FONG, GEOFFREY T · 2016 to 2025
$25.3M
Health Research Council of New Zealand, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, US National Cancer Institute 19/641, FDN-148477, IA-004, P01 CA200512NCI NIH HHS P01 CA200512
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimIn February 2024, the Aotearoa New Zealand Government repealed legislation to mandate very low nicotine cigarettes (VLNCs), greatly reduce the number of tobacco retailers and disallow sale of tobacco products to people born after 2008 (smokefree generation). We investigated acceptability and likely impacts of these measures among people who smoke or who recently (≤2 years) quit smoking.

methodWe analysed data from 1,230 participants from Wave 3 (conducted in late 2020 and early 2021) and 615 participants from Wave 3.5 (conducted in June/July 2021) of the New Zealand arm of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Policy Evaluation Project. Data were weighted to represent the national population of people who smoke and who recently quit smoking.

resultsSupport (excluding "Don't know" responses) was 82.7% (95% confidence interval 77.9, 86.6) for a smokefree generation, 75.0% (95% CI 71.4, 78.3) for mandated VLNCs and 35.2% (95% CI 31.7, 38.9) for retailer reduction. Support was mostly similar by ethnicity, gender, age and evidence of financial hardship, but was higher among people who had recently quit smoking. Around half of the participants who smoked anticipated quitting completely, switching to vaping or cutting down the amount they smoke if mandated VLNCs or substantial retailer reductions were introduced. If VLNCs were mandated, 19% of people who smoked stated they would carry on smoking like they do now and find a way to get the cigarettes or tobacco they want to smoke.

conclusionSupport for and anticipated actions in response to the smokefree legislation measures call into question the Government's decision to repeal them.

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Smoking CessationTobacco ProductsAdolescentAdultAgedFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNew ZealandSmoke-Free PolicySurveys and QuestionnairesTobacco ControlYoung Adult

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PMCPMC12208138

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