Janet Hoek
Biographic Data
| ID | 234403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Hoek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoek |
| SIGNATURE | HOEK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4362-1539 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 87 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 87 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A systematic review and synthesis of qualitative research on stakeholder views on commercial tobacco endgame goals and policies
BACKGROUND: As more countries and local jurisdictions set commercial tobacco endgame goals, evidence on stakeholders' views about endgame policies has expanded. We reviewed and synthesized evidence from qualitative studies on stakeholders' views about tobacco endgame goals and policies. METHOD: A systematic review of articles published until 20 August 2025 was conducted using seven academic databases: PubMed, Web of Science, CINAHL, Embase, Medli…
The case against duty-free tobacco sales
Duty-free sales of tobacco products represent a government-sanctioned price discount that has undermined Aotearoa's Smokefree 2025 goal and its obligations as a Party to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Barriers to evidence-based alcohol policies in France
In line with the MSA streams, our findings suggest that ambivalent framing of alcohol, weak support for evidence-based measures and a wine-favorable political environment may explain the weak alcohol control policies in France. Future research should include additional stakeholders to capture the full set of dynamics that contribute to policy inertia
Poipoia te kākano kia puāwai
This article seeks to understand Māori experiences of roll your own tobacco and how these experiences align with current on-pack warning messages. Historically, tobacco control messaging has drawn on biomedical science and neoliberal ideology promoting individual choice to motivate cessation; however, this framing may not align with Māori perceptions of tobacco and collective well-being. While the history of tobacco use reveals the ongoing impact…
Tobacco package health warnings about product manipulations
The tobacco industry manipulates cigarettes to provide sensory cues that mislead people who smoke. We assessed the effectiveness of health warnings (HWs) focussed on the impact of misleading product attributes, including filter ventilation, menthol, and roll-your-own tobacco, which were called Product Attribute HWs. Australian adults who smoke (n = 2544) were randomly assigned to view: control medication warnings; new Standard HWs with smoking ha…
An analysis of submissions on regulations to implement Aotearoa New Zealand’s tobacco endgame policies
In late 2022, Aotearoa New Zealand passed legislation to introduce three commercial ‘tobacco endgame’ policies designed to reduce smoking prevalence rapidly and equitably; however, a newly elected coalition government repealed these measures in early 2024. Although Aotearoa is a Party to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, tobacco companies could participate in policy consultation processes and lobbied strongly against the endgame polici…
Clearing the haze
Marketing of tobacco and vape products is effective at recruiting new users; yet, little is known about children’s online exposure to such material. This research aimed to develop a methodology for assessing children’s exposure to, and engagement with, online tobacco and vape marketing. This pilot study used data from the innovative Kids Online Aotearoa Study in which 156 11–13-year-olds from schools in the Wellington region of Aotearoa New Zeala…
Breaking new ground in tobacco control
Most research on SFC policies has been conducted in settings with low smoking prevalence where SFCs are typical. Our study is the first to assess support in a country where SFC policies were not yet widespread. The high level of support observed should encourage the broader implementation of SFCs in France and across other European countries
A hopeful journey
On-pack efficacy labels could complement PWLs and support people to address the threat these warnings describe. Policymakers should explore and implement interventions such as efficacy stimuli, given these appear to resonate with priority population groups and could help reduce health inequities
Removing or returning freedom? Views on a nicotine-free generation policy held by young people from aotearoa who use electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS)
Although participants thought a nicotine-free generation could impose personal hardship, most privileged the freedom they thought it could bring over the illusory 'choice' they currently had. Policy-makers should consider looking beyond a smokefree generation to a nicotine-free generation; alongside this measure, they should implement strong enforcement and provide comprehensive support so young people addicted to nicotine can be empowered to sto…
Aotearoa New Zealand’s ‘endgame’ legislation
Coalition arguments presented dystopic outcomes while Opposition arguments highlighted process flaws that threatened democracy and equity. Researchers and advocates should continue to document the weak and contradictory empirical support for tobacco companies' arguments. However, future activities should expose tobacco companies' connections with politicians, demand stronger compliance with the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and promote …
Young people's experiences of addiction to nicotine vaping products
‘You just wanna hit it … ‘cause like it smells like fun’
To inform public policy and practice, we investigated how adolescents experience and perceive nicotine vaping. Young people have the right to be heard on this issue, and policies that respond to youth perspectives are likely to be more effective. Most of our 14–17‐year‐old participants ( N = 64) did not currently vape and abstinence was an active choice associated with family values, religious beliefs, and the perceived risks vaping posed to iden…
Nicotine beliefs and perceptions of low nicotine labels and mitigating statements among people who do and do not smoke
Misunderstanding of VLNCs as less harmful than regular cigarettes is widespread; VLN messages may reinforce this misperception, which mitigating statements did not correct among people who smoke. As an alternative to VLN messages, policy makers could consider introducing VLNCs on a specified date and developing public information campaigns; these measures would avoid phase-in confusion and obviate the need for VLN messaging
Global policy scan of commercial combustible tobacco product retailing regulations by WHO region
At a minimum, policy-makers should implement licensing schemes, licence caps and proximity limits and invest in robust monitoring systems and compliance enforcement. Tobacco products' ubiquity is incompatible with its status as a dangerous addictive substance and does not align with tobacco endgame goals
Lived experiences of stigma and altered self-perceptions among young people who are addicted to ENDS
We extend earlier studies by probing the mental health burden ENDS use imposes on young people, offer new insights into how they experience addiction and outline potential policy responses. Measures reducing young people's access to ENDS are urgently needed alongside empathetic, youth-oriented cessation support
Navigating social interactions and constructing vaping social identities
How do people who smoke perceive a tobacco retail outlet reduction policy in Aotearoa New Zealand? A qualitative analysis
Many participants hoped to become smoke-free and thought retail reduction measures would prompt quit attempts and reduce relapse. Adopting a holistic well-being perspective, such as those developed by Māori, could address concerns about unintended adverse outcomes and provide comprehensive support to people who smoke as they adjust to a fundamental change in tobacco availability
New Zealand community pharmacists’ perspectives on supplying smoked tobacco as an endgame initiative
Policy-makers will likely encounter strongly expressed opposition if they attempt to introduce a pharmacy supply measure as an initial component of a retail reduction strategy. However, as smoking prevalence falls, adopting a health-promoting supply model, using pharmacies that chose to participate, would become more feasible and potentially enhance community outreach and cessation support
A narrative analysis of a tobacco industry campaign to disrupt Aotearoa New Zealand’s endgame policies
To address the existential challenges they face, tobacco companies used several discursive strategies to oppose the retailer reduction and VLNC policies. Our findings could inform counterarguments, and help international policymakers and advocates anticipate opposition they may encounter when introducing endgame measures, such as reducing tobacco availability
Point-of-sale displays
E-cigarette flavours and vaping as a social practice
E-liquid flavours are perhaps the most materially disruptive aspect of vaping compared with smoking, especially for people who smoke tobacco and who wish to quit. A better understanding of whether and how e-liquid flavours create personal and social value for people who smoke may offer insights into how vaping has become a social practice among this group. These insights may be useful for countries such as New Zealand, where health authorities ha…
How do New Zealand youth perceive the smoke-free generation policy? A qualitative analysis
Young people's deep reflection on the SFG led most to view it as liberating rather than restrictive. Communications that avoid prompting heuristic-based responses could encourage youth to reflect on the policy and elicit strong support from the group the SFG aims to benefit
Specialist vape store developments during the implementation of New Zealand’s Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Act 2020
Going ‘Super Value’ in New Zealand
Between 2010 and 2020, NZ tobacco companies introduced more Super Value cigarette brands and shifted excise tax increases to reduce the impact these had on low-priced brands. Setting a minimum retail price for cigarettes could curtail tobacco companies' ability to undermine tobacco taxation policies designed to reduce smoking
An exploration of parents’ food purchasing behaviours
A qualitative study explored factors that influence parents' food purchasing behaviours in supermarkets and away-from-home settings, particularly the role played by nutrition information. Individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 15 parents of young children in a provincial city in New Zealand. A semi-structured protocol was used to elicit factors influencing food purchases and explore the understanding and influence of existing nutritio…
Interpretive front-of-pack nutrition labels. Comparing competing recommendations
The Behavior of Respondents, Nonrespondents, and Refusers Across Mail Surveys
Journal Article THE BEHAVIOR OF RESPONDENTS, NONRESPONDENTS, AND REFUSERS ACROSS MAIL SURVEYS Get access MIKE BRENNAN, MIKE BRENNAN Massey University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JANET HOEK JANET HOEK Massey University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 4, WINTER 1992, Pages 530–535, https://doi.org/10.1086/269343 Published…
Graphic warning labels on plain cigarette packs
Tobacco Branding, Plain Packaging, Pictorial Warnings, and Symbolic Consumption
We use brand association and symbolic consumption theory to explore how plain cigarette packaging would influence the identities young adults cocreate with tobacco products. Group discussions and in-depth interviews with 86 young adult smokers and nonsmokers investigated how participants perceive tobacco branding and plain cigarette packaging with larger health warnings. We examined the transcript data using thematic analysis and explored how rem…
Respondent Understanding of the 1999 Referendum Question on a Reform of the New Zealand Justice System
A referendum question at the 1999 New Zealand general election resulted in a 92% 'Yes' vote in favour of reform of the New Zealand justice system. However, even supporters of the referendum conceded the question was poorly designed and open to different interpretations. To examine these interpretations, we deconstructed the referendum question into five constituent questions and tested these on a sample of potential voters. Support for the consti…
The Behavior of Respondents, Nonrespondents, and Refusers Across Mail Surveys
Journal Article THE BEHAVIOR OF RESPONDENTS, NONRESPONDENTS, AND REFUSERS ACROSS MAIL SURVEYS Get access MIKE BRENNAN, MIKE BRENNAN Massey University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JANET HOEK JANET HOEK Massey University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 4, WINTER 1992, Pages 530–535, https://doi.org/10.1086/269343 Published…
Respondent Understanding of the 1999 Referendum Question on a Reform of the New Zealand Justice System
A referendum question at the 1999 New Zealand general election resulted in a 92% 'Yes' vote in favour of reform of the New Zealand justice system. However, even supporters of the referendum conceded the question was poorly designed and open to different interpretations. To examine these interpretations, we deconstructed the referendum question into five constituent questions and tested these on a sample of potential voters. Support for the consti…
HIV testing behaviour among heterosexual migrants in Amsterdam
This cross-sectional study among heterosexual migrant groups in south-eastern Amsterdam, the city area where the largest migrant groups live, provides an insight into HIV testing behaviour in this particular group. Participants were recruited at street locations (May 1997-July 1998) and interviewed using structured questionnaires. They also donated saliva for HIV testing. In total, 705 males and 769 females were included in this study (Afro-Surin…
"Healthy Eating - Healthy Action"
This paper outlines our approach to evaluating a complex national health promotion strategy. Not only does the Evaluation have the potential to identify interventions that could be adopted internationally, but also the development of the Evaluation design can inform other complex evaluations
An exploration of parents’ food purchasing behaviours
A qualitative study explored factors that influence parents' food purchasing behaviours in supermarkets and away-from-home settings, particularly the role played by nutrition information. Individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 15 parents of young children in a provincial city in New Zealand. A semi-structured protocol was used to elicit factors influencing food purchases and explore the understanding and influence of existing nutritio…
Effects of dissuasive packaging on young adult smokers
Plain packs that feature large graphic health warnings are significantly more likely to promote cessation among young adult smokers than fully or partially branded packs. The findings support the introduction of plain packaging and suggest use of unbranded package space to feature larger health warnings would further promote cessation
Tobacco control haiku
Context The Abortion Law in Northern Ireland - professional attitudes to change. Objective To elicit the attitudes of doctors in Northern Ireland, practicing obstetrics and gynaecology or family planning. Method Questionnaires (n = 155) were sent to all grades of doctors working in obstetrics and gynaecology or family planning in Northern Ireland during 1996. Results One hundred and two (65.8%) of the questionnaires were returned. The majority of…
How do tobacco retail displays affect cessation attempts? Findings from a qualitative study
The effects of tobacco retail displays on smokers making a cessation attempt are explored. The findings are consistent with experimental and survey research, and expand a growing evidence base that supports government-mandated bans on tobacco retail displays
Direct to consumer advertising versus disease awareness advertising
At present, only the United States and New Zealand allow direct‐to‐consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription medicine. In other countries where DTCA is not allowed, including Australia and the United Kingdom, pharmaceutical companies undertake disease awareness advertising (DAA). In DAA, advertisements do not name a drug directly, but provide general information about diseases and treatments, and encourage consumers to talk to their doctor. Sim…
Tobacco retail displays
Removing in-store tobacco displays may increase rather than decrease store safety. Our findings reveal that retailers' experiences differed in many ways from tobacco companies' predictions and suggest that industry arguments against display removal lack objective support and are self-serving
Conflict of interest and FCTC implementation in China
To promote more effective tobacco control policies, the conflict of interest inhibiting the public health function of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (STMA) must be removed. Specifically, the public health function must be separated from oversight of commercial production, and packaging must be redesigned with pictorial warnings and messages compliant with Article 11 of the FCTC
A cross-sectional analysis of how young adults perceive tobacco brands
Tobacco packaging uses logos, colours and imagery to create desirable connotations that promote and reinforce smoking. By functioning in the same way as advertising, on-pack branding breaches Article 13 of the FCTC and refutes tobacco companies' claims that pack livery serves only as an indentifying device that simplifies smokers' decision-making. Given this evidence, signatories should see plain packaging policies as a priority consistent with t…
The times are changing’
Politicians may have a stronger mandate to implement endgame policies than they appreciate. Participants' use of industry arguments when asserting their freedom to 'choose' to smoke and quit suggests a need for denormalisation strategies that challenge industry propaganda, demonstrate how endgame measures would empower smokers and re-iterate the community benefits a smoke-free society will deliver
Social smokers' management of conflicted identities
Although social smokers regret smoking, their retrospective remorse was insufficient to promote behaviour change, and environmental modifications appear more likely to promote smoke-free behaviours among social smokers. Participants strongly supported extending the smoke-free areas outside bars, a measure that would help decouple their alcohol-fuelled behaviours from the identity to which they aspire
Effects of alternative label formats on choice of high- and low-sodium products in a New Zealand population sample
Objective Dietary sodium reduction is a cost-effective public health intervention to reduce chronic disease. In response to calls for further research into front-of-pack labelling systems, we examined how alternative sodium nutrition label formats and nutrition claims influenced consumers’ choice behaviour and whether consumers with or without a diagnosis of hypertension differed in their choice patterns. Design An anonymous online experiment in …
Tobacco Branding, Plain Packaging, Pictorial Warnings, and Symbolic Consumption
We use brand association and symbolic consumption theory to explore how plain cigarette packaging would influence the identities young adults cocreate with tobacco products. Group discussions and in-depth interviews with 86 young adult smokers and nonsmokers investigated how participants perceive tobacco branding and plain cigarette packaging with larger health warnings. We examined the transcript data using thematic analysis and explored how rem…
Graphic warning labels on plain cigarette packs
A qualitative exploration of young adult smokers’ responses to novel tobacco warnings
Participants regarded warnings featuring proximal social risks as more salient and they were less likely to rationalise these as irrelevant. Social risk messages merit further investigation to examine their potential as a complement to traditional health warnings
Advancing the retail endgame
Public support for more progressive 'endgame' retail measures could catalyse policy action which, in turn, could offer greater protection to young people and accelerate declines in smoking prevalence. Mandatory tobacco-free retail zones around schools, and requiring stores selling tobacco to stock cessation products received strong support, even among daily smokers; both measures would reduce youth exposure to tobacco while providing smokers with…
Youth exposure to in-vehicle second-hand smoke and their smoking behaviours
The slow decline in SHS exposure in vehicles and the lack of progress in reducing relative inequalities is problematic. To accelerate progress, the New Zealand Government could follow the example of other jurisdictions and prohibit smoking in cars carrying children. Other major policy interventions, beside enhanced smoke-free environments, will also likely be required if New Zealand is to achieve its 2025 smoke-free nation goal
A qualitative analysis of ‘informed choice’ among young adult smokers
Young adults' ability to exercise 'informed choice' at the time of smoking uptake is constrained by cognitive and contextual factors. We propose an updated informed choice framework that recognises these factors; we outline environmental changes that could make default adoption of smoking less common while promoting more 'informed choices
How adolescents view the tobacco endgame and tobacco control measures
Young people support New Zealand's smoke-free goal and interventions that could help achieve it; this evidence should galvanise policy action, which remains out of step with public opinion
A comparison of on-pack Quitline information formats
Reformatting Quitline information could improve its visual salience and readability and capitalise on the dissonance that pictorial warning labels and plain packaging create. Enhancing stimuli that may prompt smokers to try and quit, affirming their decision to do so and prompting the use of cessation support could increase the number and success of quit attempts
Sodium and nutrition labelling
Objective Dietary sodium reduction is an important public health intervention that would reduce blood pressure and chronic disease. An understanding of how New Zealand consumers’ food purchasing behaviour is influenced by perceptions of dietary sodium will inform future sodium-reduction strategies. Design The present qualitative study used in-depth interviews of adult consumers to explore consumer knowledge, understanding of food labels and food …
Interpretive front-of-pack nutrition labels. Comparing competing recommendations
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