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Cancer Action Plan
Monday, 2 September 2019, 3:36 pm | Action On Smoking And Health
ASH NZ, a leading organisation campaigning to eliminate the death and harm caused by tobacco, welcomes the Government’s Cancer Action Plan, released yesterday. More >>
ASH Year Ten Smoking Survey Data Release - Vaping
Tuesday, 18 September 2018, 10:48 am | Action On Smoking And Health
Results from the ASH year 10 smoking survey show that in 2017 fewer than 2% of Year 10 students use e-cigarettes daily. More >>
25 Years of Progress on Youth Smoking
Tuesday, 27 March 2018, 10:06 am | Action On Smoking And Health
ASH Patron Rt Hon Helen Clark Leads a Celebration of 25 Years of Progress on Youth Smoking More >>
Latest ASH survey shows youth smoking is at an all time low
Wednesday, 14 February 2018, 10:29 am | Action On Smoking And Health
Results from the 2016 ASH year 10 survey released today show that only 2.2 percent of year ten students smoke daily. The lowest smoking rates recorded since 1999 when 15.2 percent of students smoked daily. More >>
Auckland Council’s Investment Shock
Monday, 1 August 2016, 2:02 pm | Action On Smoking And Health
Action and Smoking on Health (ASH) and Hāpai Te Hauora (Hāpai) as the National Tobacco Control Advocacy are disappointed with the news that Auckland City Council has investments in soft drink, alcohol and tobacco companies. Both organisations ... More >>
Big Tobacco loses again in court
Monday, 11 July 2016, 12:17 pm | Action On Smoking And Health
Action on Smoking and Health New Zealand (ASH) congratulate Uruguay’s stand against big tobacco and pushing their right to protect the health of their people. More >>
MP Marama Fox stubs out Big Tobacco in plain packs debate
Tuesday, 28 June 2016, 12:08 pm | Action On Smoking And Health
ASH NZ congratulates Māori Party co-leader Marama Fox on her strong words in her debate with Imperial Tobacco spokesperson Axel Gietz on TV3’s The Nation. More >>
ASH Anticipates Progress on Plain Packs
Tuesday, 31 May 2016, 10:54 am | Action On Smoking And Health
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) congratulates the Associate Minister of Health on an anticipated announcement this morning which will progress Standardised (Plain) Packaging legislation. More >>
Tobacco industry shouldn’t pause plain packaging
Thursday, 18 February 2016, 3:20 pm | Action On Smoking And Health
Yesterday British American Tobacco announced that it was considering legal avenues to fight the Smokefree Environments (Tobacco Plain Packaging) Amendment Bill. This followed John Key’s announcement earlier this week that he anticipated that the ... More >>
Key’s position on plain packaging made plain
Wednesday, 17 February 2016, 3:39 pm | Action On Smoking And Health
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) congratulates Prime Minister John Key on his announcement regarding the progress of the Smoke-free Environments (Tobacco Plain Packaging) Amendment Bill. More >>
Tobacco Industry nightmare, now a reality
Monday, 21 December 2015, 9:49 am | Action On Smoking And Health
Australia has won an international legal battle to uphold its world-leading tobacco control measures, with Philip Morris failing in its long-running attempt to challenge plain packaging laws under a bilateral trade agreement with Hong Kong. More >>
Smokefree 2025 under threat
Tuesday, 15 December 2015, 4:26 pm | Action On Smoking And Health
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) calls on the government to pass a second reading of the bill on standardised packaging first thing in the New Year. More >>
TPPA Tobacco Carve-out Good News for New Zealand Health
Tuesday, 6 October 2015, 2:57 pm | Action On Smoking And Health
TPPA Tobacco Carve-out Good News for New Zealand Health Last night’s announcement of the conclusion of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations included a major victory for public health – built in protections to prevent tobacco companies ... More >>
Can we have more tax please?
Tuesday, 29 September 2015, 10:33 am | Action On Smoking And Health
Tobacco taxes play an important role in cutting smoking rates in New Zealand. Since 2010 taxes on tobacco products have risen 10% every year with an overall average drop in cigarette sales of 23%. With the last scheduled rise in tobacco tax approaching ... More >>
Strong public support for smokefree cars
Friday, 30 May 2014, 9:34 am | Action On Smoking And Health
A new survey conducted for Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) by UMR shows over 90 per cent of New Zealanders back a law change on smoking in cars with children. More >>
Duty-free change helps stop undercutting of smokefree policy
Thursday, 8 May 2014, 5:16 pm | Action On Smoking And Health
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) says Government changes in the duty-free allowance from 200 to 50 cigarettes will stop tobacco tax increases being eroded by tax free tobacco. More >>
ASH Year 10 survey by DHB region
Thursday, 3 April 2014, 4:19 pm | Action On Smoking And Health
The Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Year 10 smoking survey by DHB results are: More >>
ASH Year 10 Survey shows drop in youth smoking
Thursday, 13 March 2014, 2:27 pm | Action On Smoking And Health
The Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Year 10 smoking survey shows only 3.2 per cent of Year 10 students are smoking daily. This compares to 4.1 per cent in the previous year. More >>
No drop in daily youth smoking
Wednesday, 10 April 2013, 11:11 am | Action On Smoking And Health
The Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Year 10 smoking survey shows youth smoking has not decreased. More >>
Plain packs move right call but no need for delay, says ASH
Tuesday, 19 February 2013, 1:55 pm | Action On Smoking And Health
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) commends news the government is introducing legislation on plain packaging of tobacco products, but says there is no need for a delay until 2014 with plain packing already in Australian shops from last December. More >>
