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SkyCity Should Have Acted On Crowe Smoking
Monday, 3 April 2006, 9:04 am | Smokefree Coalition
Smokefree Coalition Director Mark Peck is disappointed that SkyCity did not enforce the smoking ban at Friday night’s rock concert by Russell Crowe. The singer and actor smoked on stage throughout his show. More >>
Smokefree Coalition Director Walks Out of Seminar
Friday, 24 March 2006, 1:02 pm | Smokefree Coalition
Smokefree Coalition Director Mark Peck has this morning walked out of a tobacco control seminar in Auckland because of the presence of an associate of the tobacco industry. More >>
Government Tobacco Tax Decision Will Cost Lives
Thursday, 2 March 2006, 10:23 am | Smokefree Coalition
Smokefree Coalition Director Mark Peck says the Government’s decision not to increase tobacco tax in its May budget will cost some New Zealanders their lives. Finance Minister Michael Cullen today told a select committee that there were no plans to ... More >>
NZ Risks Breaching International Treaty
Wednesday, 1 March 2006, 8:10 am | Smokefree Coalition
New Zealand is in danger of breaching its international obligations if it doesn’t pick up the pace on the introduction of larger health warnings on tobacco packets, says Smokefree Coalition Director Mark Peck. More >>
England Joins NZ In Smoking Ban
Thursday, 16 February 2006, 9:27 am | Smokefree Coalition
The Smokefree Coalition is welcoming news that MPs have voted overwhelmingly to ban lighting up in pubs and clubs in England. The law will now go to the upper House of Lords, where it is also expected to pass. If so, it will become law by mid-2007. More >>
Politicians Urged To Increase Tobacco Tax
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 2:22 pm | Smokefree Coalition
One New Zealander will die from smoking in the time it takes for politicians to consider submissions today. That was the message from Smokefree Coalition Director Mark Peck and Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Director Becky Freeman to the Finance and ... More >>
New Zealand Urged To Use Smokefree Status
Thursday, 2 February 2006, 10:37 am | Smokefree Coalition
The Smokefree Coalition is urging New Zealand cities to use the fact that they are smokefree as a point of difference when they bid for host-city rights to international meetings and conferences. Smoking has been banned in indoor workplaces in New Zealand, ... More >>
Smokefree Legislation Linked To Drop In Gambling
Wednesday, 25 January 2006, 5:20 pm | Smokefree Coalition
The Smokefree Coalition is welcoming figures from Internal Affairs showing that New Zealanders are spending less on gambling. The reduction in expenditure is thought to be linked to the December 2004 ban on smoking in indoor workplaces, including ... More >>
New Smokefree Coalition Director Appointed
Wednesday, 11 January 2006, 9:12 am | Smokefree Coalition
Former Invercargill MP Mark Peck has been appointed as the new director of the Smokefree Coalition, following the resignation of Leigh Sturgiss. Ms Sturgiss was director for five years. More >>
Prohibit university associations with big tobacco
Tuesday, 22 November 2005, 9:43 am | Smokefree Coalition
The Smokefree Coalition is calling on New Zealand universities to introduce formal policies that prohibit them from working with the tobacco industry. The call follows revelations in an article by University of Otago researchers that associations between ... More >>
Maori tobacco-control expert speaks
Monday, 7 November 2005, 9:54 am | Smokefree Coalition
Director of the Maori Smokefree Coalition Shane Kawenata Bradbrook will be a keynote speaker on Tuesday at Raising the Bar, which is a gathering of tobacco control experts in Hawaii. More >>
Mapp’s plans for life-saving legislation ‘bizarre'
Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 10:20 am | Smokefree Coalition
National Party MP Wayne Mapp’s talk about changing the ban on smoking in bars and restaurants is bizarre says Smokefree Coalition Director Leigh Sturgiss. More >>
Conference challenges Maori leadership
Wednesday, 19 October 2005, 9:20 am | Smokefree Coalition
A Maori smoke-free conference which opens in Wellington tomorrow will challenge Maori leadership to join the fight against tobacco. More >>
Babies Need Smokefree Environments Too
Thursday, 13 October 2005, 4:02 pm | Smokefree Coalition
Health groups are welcoming an increased focus on the effects of tobacco smoking on unborn babies. More >>
Tobacco Industry Must Be Reined-in
Friday, 7 October 2005, 10:31 am | Smokefree Coalition
The Smokefree Coalition and the Public Health Association are welcoming calls from researchers for strengthened controls on the tobacco industry. More >>
Sales Figures Show Support For Smokefree Bars
Thursday, 18 August 2005, 11:07 am | Smokefree Coalition
Latest figures showing that retail sales for bars and clubs increased 3.4 percent in the June 2005 quarter indicate that people are supporting smokefree hospitality venues says the Smokefree Coalition and Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). More >>
Health Groups Welcome Closure Of Smoky Bar
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 9:10 am | Smokefree Coalition
The Smokefree Coalition is welcoming a Liquor Licensing Authority ruling that Kelly Browne’s Bar must shut for three weeks. The Cambridge bar had repeatedly thumbed its nose at the new smokefree bars law. The Coalition represents 27 health groups, ... More >>
Smokefree Arts Season Of Slaves To The Rhythm
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 3:22 pm | Smokefree Coalition
The Smokefree Arts Season of Slaves to the Rhythm brings together New Zealand's most outstanding percussionists Strike and 2nd & 3rd year contemporary dance students from the New Zealand School of Dance in a performance of sheer vigour. Following ... More >>
Tied Tobacco Tax Needed To Fund Quitting
Friday, 15 April 2005, 10:10 am | Smokefree Coalition
More money collected in tobacco tax should be spent trying to help New Zealanders quit smoking, says Otago University researcher Dr Nick Wilson in the latest New Zealand Medical Journal. More >>
All Tobacco Branding Should Be Banned
Friday, 15 April 2005, 10:09 am | Smokefree Coalition
All tobacco branding in New Zealand should be banned, says public health researcher Dr George Thomson in an article published in the latest New Zealand Medical Journal. More >>
