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This toolkit presents a range of issues, policy options, and considerations that each country needs to take into account for purposes of developing country efforts for the implementation of Article 5.3 related to protection of tobacco control measures from interference by the tobacco industry of the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control …

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Review of ITIC’s ASEAN Excise Tax Reform: A Resource Manual” by Prof. Hana Ross, Principal Research Officer of the Economics of Tobacco Control at the University of Cape Town, is an academic review commissioned by the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA).  The review of the manual’s section on tobacco taxation has revealed contradictions and inconsistencies …

Undermining Global Best Practice in Tobacco Taxation in the ASEAN Region Read More »

Tobacco companies continue to conduct fake CSR as a tactic to undermine the ban on tobacco advertising, promotions and sponsorship. To circumvent the ban, they use their own foundations to fund and advertise these activities. This report provides the latest information on which organisations in the ASEAN region the top 4 tobacco companies have targeted …

End Tobacco Industry Corporate Giving: A Review of CSR in Southeast Asia, 2015 Read More »

The world’s first Index on implementation of WHO FCTC Article 6.  This civil society report gauges tobacco tax measures in ASEAN countries in relation to the recommendations of the FCTC Article 6 Guidelines and urges ASEAN governments to strengthen and hasten the implementation of their tobacco tax policies.   PDF 1mb

Elimination of illicit trade is an important component of global tobacco control. This has been recognized at the Fifth Meeting of the Conference of Parties to the FCTC when Parties adopted the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products to prevent the undermining effect that illicit trade has on price and tax measures, health …

Measures to Control the Tobacco Supply Chain in the ASEAN Read More »

Tobacco Industry Interference Index, 2015 2015 ASEAN Report on Implementation of WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Article 5.3. This is the second Tobacco Industry (TI) Interference Index to assess the implementation of World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) Article 5.3 in the ASEAN region. Seven countries (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, …

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