Advice sought overseas after local court setback Anti-smoking groups have vowed to seek international support for the push to enlarge health warning labels on cigarette packages. The Action on Smoking and Health Foundation and the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance announced its move yesterday. It follows the Central Administrative Court’s ruling to suspend the enforcement of …
Bangkok/02 August 2013: Mr. Chatchawan Monthatipkul, representative of the Thai Youth Network, questioned Philip Morris International-PMI (Thailand) and Japan Tobacco International-JTI (Thailand) efforts to avoid compliance with Thai domestic laws and asked the two companies to withdraw the lawsuit against Ministry of Public Health on the regulation requiring 85% pictorial health warnings(PHW) on cigarette packages. …
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July 8, 2013/Davao City: Davao City, the first completely smoke-free city in Southeast Asia, plays host to a regional meeting that will strengthen the movement to curb tobacco use throughout Southeast Asia. Delegates from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam will converge in Davao from July 8 to 10, and …
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Jakarta, 10 June 2013: Cigarettes are becoming cheaper and more affordable for most residents of Southeast Asia, the latest study from the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) says, underscoring the need for stronger and more effective tobacco tax policies across the region to curb tobacco use while also raising government revenues. The report “Affordability …
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18 June 2013, (Kuala Lumpur): Tobacco companies are going around laws banning cigarette promotion and circumventing rules restricting point-of-sale (POS) advertising, the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) said, as it supports the move of the Malaysian Minister of Health to ban cigarette packs display at POS. In a roundtable discussion in Kuala Lumpur, SEATCA’s …
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10:30am, Hotel Atlet Century Park, Jl. Pintu Satu, Jakarta, Indonesia Child labour in the cultivation of tobacco is a major problem in the ASEAN region. Activities children perform in tobacco farming, as well as related risks and deprivation, violate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which sets out rights of children to …
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Trade Negotiators at the 16th Round of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Singapore continue to be dismissive of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the only global treaty that regulates a consumer product. Chief negotiators of the 11 countries at the stakeholder briefing held on 6 March 2013 evaded questions on tobacco …
Affordability of Cigarettes and the Impact of Raising Tobacco Excise Taxes in SEA Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam