Surabaya–Many local residents were still seen puffing away on their favorite cigarettes in malls and other public areas as the Surabaya municipal administration started enforcing the bylaw against smoking in public places on Thursday. Budi, a shopper at a mall, said Thursday he was unaware such an ordinance had been enacted last year in Surabaya. …
HA NOI — The third Asian Indoor Games (AIG), to be held in Viet Nam next Thursday, will be a non-smoking Games. The events’ organising board and World Health Organisation (WHO)’s Viet Nam branch office signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the capital yesterday to make this AIG the third one to be non-smoking. …
Attached is a 2-page article on the French movie “Coco Avant Chanel” from a lifestyle magazine of a broadsheet (top3) in the Philippines. The pictures vividly show the star holding a lighted cigarette. The entire movie depicts well known fashion icon Coco Chanel as a chain smoking, but glamorous woman of style. Click to view the full article …
SINGAPORE: The Health Promotion Board (HPB) has launched a new initiative which it hopes will arrest the rising trend of young women picking up smoking in Singapore. A 2007 national survey found that nearly 10 per cent of female respondents aged between 18 and 29 smoked daily, up from 4 per cent in 2001. The …
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THE Council of Ministers is to make graphic new warning labels on cigarette packages mandatory – part of a plan aimed at combating one of the world’s leading killers. The visual warning labels will be mandatory on all cigarette packets sold in Cambodia, with the graphics occupying no less than 30 percent of the packaging …
Sub-decree orders visual warnings on cigarette packages, 19/10/09 Read More »
ANALYSTS said they were caught by surprise over the government’s move to raise excise duties on tobacco, three weeks ahead of the tabling of Budget 2010. They said the directive to increase tobacco excise duties by 1 sen per stick to 19 sen came earlier than anticipated. They had thought that any increase would be …
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The government has denied any involvement in the striking off of a contentious sub-article on tobacco in the recently endorsed health law, deemed an effort to protect the country’s cigarette industry. State Secretary Hatta Radjasa said Tuesday the law, passed by the House of Representatives last month, was already missing the sub-article when his office …
Govt denies involvement in missing tobacco article, 13/10/09 Read More »
Last 10th October 2009, the Hanoi Union of Friendship Organizations had a peace march: ‘Towards the Green, Clean, Beautiful, Smoke-free City of Hanoi’, to mark the occasion and commemorate the 999th anniversary of the Thang Long-Hanoi. This activity was co-organized by the Hanoi People’s Committee and MInistry of Foreign Affairs. The march, which coincides …
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