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DHBs throw their weight behind Smokefree 2025
08 November 2021
District health boards are backing calls for rapid action on Aotearoa’s smokefree goals sayi...
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Two parallel health challenges
01 November 2021
Selah Hart Mana Amorangi/chief executive of Hāpai te Hauora speaks about smoking and covid-1...
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Stubbing out cigarettes for good
14 October 2021
An article in the Spinoff and penned by professors of public health, Richard Edwards and Chr...
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Vapes are essential for those using them to quit smoking
08 October 2021
Vaping is a critical tool to help people quit smoking. For those who need to use vaping to ...
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A critical time for Smokefree 2025
26 July 2021
ASH Director, Deborah Hart talks to Newstalk ZB’s Heather Du Plessis-Allan, “We are at a cri...
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Cigarette smuggling
02 July 2021
New Zealand has a problem at its border - cigarettes. Customs' head of investigations says ...
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Reduce the demand for tobacco
28 June 2021
Prof Robert Beaglehole writes for the Spinoff. “Measures to reduce cigarette supply will be...
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Time to get real
22 June 2021
Breakfast TV talks tobacco reduction with Professor Beaglehole as he tells dairy owners, "it...
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Vaping and harm reduction
08 June 2021
ASH’s Director, Deborah Hart and the University of Auckland's Professor Chris Bullen talk va...
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$36.6 Million to get Aoteoroa New Zealand to Smokefree 2025
20 May 2021
ASH Director, Deborah Hart welcomed the budget announcements to increase funding for Smokefr...
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Butting out cigarette butts
27 April 2021
American historian Robert Proctor once called them “the deadliest fraud in the history of hu...
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A smokefree generation won't get us to smokefree
15 April 2021
Talking with RNZ, ASH Director, Deborah Hart explains why implementing a policy for a smokef...
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