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Action for Smokefree 2025 (ASH) welcomes Jenny Salesa as the new Minister responsible for Smokefree 2025.

Action for Smokefree 2025 (ASH) welcomes Jenny Salesa as the new Minister responsible for Smokefree 2025.

12 February 2018

Ministerial delegations have been dished out, and Jenny Salesa has been given responsibility...

Latest smoking statistics show a worrying lack of progress toward Smokefree 2025

Latest smoking statistics show a worrying lack of progress toward Smokefree 2025

12 February 2018

February 2018 -  Nearly 7 years since the last government agreed to a goal for a Smokefree N...

New Zealand Defence Force to be the world’s first smokefree military

New Zealand Defence Force to be the world’s first smokefree military

10 July 2017

The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) announced today that they will go smokefree by 2020.  T...

 Former Prime Minister Helen Clark calls for politicians to unite for Smokefree 2025

Former Prime Minister Helen Clark calls for politicians to unite for Smokefree 2025

29 May 2017

ASH is delighted to announce former New Zealand Prime Minister and ex-head of the United Nat...