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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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