Support for and potential impacts of key Smokefree 2025 strategies among Māori who smoke.

Aim: The recently passed Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Act has the potential to profoundly reduce smoking prevalence and related health inequities experienced among Māori. This study examined support for, and potential impacts of, key measures included within the legislation.

Method: Data came from Wave 1 (2017-2019) of the Te Ara Auahi Kore longitudinal study, which was conducted in partnership with five primary health organisations serving Māori communities.

Exploring indigenous perspectives on tobacco tax: how some Māori families are responding in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Objective: High smoking prevalence rates, combined with a steep tax on tobacco and lower household income, mean that 5% of Māori (indigenous) whānau (family unit) expenditure in New Zealand is on tobacco. This paper outlines whānau perceptions of, and behavioural responses to, increasing tobacco tax.

Methods: This qualitative study was informed by the Kaupapa Māori theory and used a simplified interpretive phenomenological analysis thematic hybrid methodology.