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Register of organisations
supporting an end to cigarettes sales
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Organisations wishing
to register their support are requested to email chair@endsmoking.org.nz
Note:
Listing below may, but not always imply support for SmokeLess New
Zealand’s strategies for achieving this result.
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Name of Organisation
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Evidence of their support, Comments
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22 February
2006
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Maori Party and its four MPs (Pita Sharples, Turia, Te Ururoa Flavell, Hone Harawira.)
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As reported in NZ Herald,
front page story on this date. Details of their proposed bill not yet
available. Maori Party says the bill is not to penalise
smokers.
Further 10 December 2010 is given as
the target date.
Appears to want a sales
ban on all tobacco products.
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12 April
2006
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SmokeLess New
Zealand, a charitable trust, formed
to promote the end of cigarettes sales.
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Aims for phase-out of
cigarette sales (and smoking tobacco) within ten years. Supportive policies
for smokers needed to pave the way for sales phase-out.
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5-6 September 2007
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Action on Smoking and Health
(ASH NZ)
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Announcement at Oceania
Tobacco Control Conference and on TV 1 on 5 September, Media release
through NZPA, 6 September. Ten year phase-out.
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5 September
2007
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Smokefree Coalition, Wellington.
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Announcement at Oceania
Tobacco Control Conference, confirmed in the Coalition’s Tobacco
Update newsletter 12 September
2007. Ten year countdown
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5 September 2007
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Te Reo Marama
(Maori Smokefree Coalition)
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Joint media release 5 September 2007 from Te Reo
Marama, ASH and Smokefree
Coalition
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Dr Murray Laugesen QSO chair; Prof Ross McCormick, Sir John Scott KBE, Trish
Fraser MPH, Dr Marewa Glover, Trustees
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