Tobacco Charity Exposed: Review of the Tobacco Industry’s CSR Activities in the ASEAN Region (PDF 1 MB)
As tobacco advertisements, promotions, and sponsorships are being restricted or prohibited by governments in line with the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the tobacco industry increasingly resorts to more insidious strategies to promote its products to consumers.
Tobacco industry duplicity: Recycling an old marketing code (PDF 3.2mb)
This report aims to expose the deceptive practice of the tobacco industry to push for voluntary codes in order to mislead, gain public and government acceptance, and avoid strict regulations.
Banning electronic smoking devices works: Lessons from Singapore for the ASEAN (PDF 1.3mb)
The ASEAN market is flooded with electronic smoking devices (ESDs) such as electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) and heated tobacco products (HTPs). While the tobacco industry and nicotine industry aggressively promote ESDs as “less harmful” to recruit customers, these products are not safe and only worsen the tobacco epidemic.
The newly updated SEATCA Tobacco Packaging and Labelling Index examines the implementation of WHO FCTC Article 11 across 10 ASEAN countries and reports on progress and gaps as the region strives to implement stronger policies on tobacco packaging and labelling, including standardized packaging. Thailand, Singapore, and Myanmar champion standardized packaging in Asia and are among 24 countries worldwide that now require standardized packaging.
