29 July 2021 Source: The Phnom Penh Post The Covid-19 outbreak has put families, the economy and the country under tremendous pressure. Protecting public health to save lives is more important and urgent than ever. Smoking is a known risk factor for more severe Covid-19 symptoms – quitting smoking now is timely and will contribute …
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19 July 2021 Jeremy Staff, Brian C. Kelly, Jennifer L. Maggs, Mike Vuolo. Source: Wiley Online Library ABSTRACT Aims To evaluate the catalyst, diversion, and common liability hypotheses by examining associations between e-cigarette use and tobacco cigarette smoking at modal ages 14 and 17, controlling for adolescent and infancy risk factors. Design Intergenerational, prospective cohort data from the …
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26 July 2021 Mike Daube, Rob Moodie. Source: Insight+ IMAGINE an airline announcing that a “superspreader” had won its Passenger of the Year Award. Metcash – “Australia’s leading wholesale distribution and marketing company”, has managed a similar coup with its recent announcement that British American Tobacco (BAT) has received the Metcash Supplier of the Year Award. We have known …
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23 July 2021 Press Statement The Southeast Asian nations of Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Vietnam could have prevented more than 1.3 million premature deaths from tobacco use and collected more than USD 4.81 billion in tax revenue if they had implemented effective tobacco tax measures. This finding is from the latest report, Lost Funds: A …
Press Release: CAMBODIA MOVEMENT FOR HEALTH Phnom Penh, 20 July 2012: Starting 1st Aug 2021 onwards, all cigarette packs sold in Cambodia shall have new pictorial health warnings as determined by the Ministry of Health (MoH). According to the Prakas of the MoH, pictorial health warning (PHW) on cigarette packs must be changed every two …
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12 July 2021 Manjari Peiris. Source: Daily Mail Online Very often we happen to find news published in print media about seizure of illicit cigarettes in Sri Lanka. What is Illicit Tobacco Trade? The World Health Organization (WHO) defines “Illicit Tobacco Trade” (ITT) as “any practice or conduct prohibited by law and which relates to production, …
15 July 2021 Anna Bueno. Source: Rappler ‘For decades, it is the [tobacco] industry and its front groups that have lied, deceived, and manipulated the public and policymakers in order to advance their own commercial interests, instead of saving lives’ Weeks before the President’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), front groups for the tobacco …
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11 July 2021 Cheryl Goh. Source: Channel News Asia Video Singapore’s smoking rate dropped from 10.6 per cent in 2019 to 10.1 per cent last year – just shy of its target to reduce smoking to below 10 per cent. Cheryl Goh finds out if the COVID-19 pandemic is hindering or helping this goal.
8 July 2021 Source: BusinessMirror Economic think tank Action for Economic Reforms (AER) slammed Ilocos Sur Mayor Chavit Singson for criticizing the recent tobacco-tax increases. In a radio interview, Singson claimed that Senator Manny Pacquiao should not have pushed for higher tobacco taxes, as high tax rates would “kill the tobacco industry.” “Anything na sobra, …
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12 July 2021 Rachel Clun. Source: The Sydney Morning Herald Cigarettes today are sold in drab olive-brown boxes, replete with yellow warning labels that shout “SMOKING KILLS” next to ugly photographs of gangrenous and rotting toes. There’s a whole generation of younger people who haven’t seen them sold any other way in Australia. But more …
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