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A Surge Strategy for Smokefree 2025
07 October 2019
7 October 2019 Today a report written by leading tobacco control experts outlines how the ...
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Leading New Zealand academic says the World Health Organisation’s approach to vaping will protect the cigarette trade and cause more harm than good.
30 August 2019
30 August 2019 In a comment published in the Lancet today, Emeritus Professor Robert Beagl...
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Sept 2018 - Latest ASH survey show less than 2% of Year 10 students use e-cigarettes daily.
25 September 2018
Results from the ASH year 10 smoking survey show that in 2017 fewer than 2% of Year 10 stude...
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Former PM Helen Clark celebrates 25 years of progress on youth smoking
21 May 2018
May 2018 ASH – Action for Smokefree 2025 has released the 25th anniversary results of the ...
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ASH welcomes the end of tobacco branding in New Zealand
21 May 2018
As of today, March 14th, Tobacco companies will no longer be able to sell cigarettes in bran...
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The latest ASH national year 10 smoking survey shows youth smoking is at an all time low.
21 May 2018
Results from the 2016 ASH year 10 survey released today show that only 2.2 percent of year t...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Rt Hon Helen Clark joins ASH
30 June 2017
ASH is delighted that former PM and ex head of the UNDP has agreed to be our new patron. Hel...
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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...
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