Regional updates archive

27 August 2016 AN average of 50 to 60 teenagers are picking up the smoking habit daily nationwide and this is worrying, said the Health

23 August 2016 Burdened by a persistent deficit in the national health insurance, the government, earlier reluctant to try to stop the country’s addiction to

17 August 2016 Cigarette packs sold around the country will display health and addiction warnings beginning September 1.  In a move to combat cigarette addiction,

23 August 2016 Plans to increase cigarette prices to Rp 50,000 (US$4) per pack from currently Rp 15,000, will be effective to reduce the number

20 August 2016 House of Representative speaker Ade Komarudin has agreed to a plan to hike cigarette prices to Rp 50,000 (US$3.79) per pack, more

19 August 2016 Protobacco lobbying in Indonesia, dubbed the country of baby smokers because of its alarmingly high smoking rate among children, is endangering the

15 August 2016 TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Widyastuti Soerojo, head of the special division for control at the Indonesian Public Health Scholars Association (IAKMI), said that the

13 August 2016 The proposal to prohibit selling tobacco products and smoking cigarettes every 15th day of the month is now backed by an anti-smoking

Tobacco control advocates are familiar with the “scream test” – the litmus test for an effective measure that hurts the tobacco industry and causes it

3 August 2016 GEORGE TOWN: Those caught smoking in the George Town World Heritage Site may have to do community service. State exco member Phee

2 August 2016 GEORGE TOWN: If you are craving for nicotine inside the no-smoking heritage enclave here, look for the yellow semi-circle marked with a

28 July 2016 SINGAPORE – The point-of-sale display ban on tobacco products – approved in Parliament in March – takes effect on August 1, 2017.  Retailers

27 July 2016 Days after a law went into effect requiring all cigarette packages sold in Cambodia to be plastered with graphic images of the

21 July 2016 Smokers who light up inside bars, restaurants, hotels and other establishment where the public gathers will face fines of 20,000 riel (about

19 July 2016 Here’s how the Asian nation dramatically curbed tobacco usage and got 91% of smokers to support harsher action against cigarettes. “Can I

20 July 2016 HÀ NỘI — The Government should bar certain industries from exploiting the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) lest they damage public health, health activists

19 July 2016 No smoking – Members of Indonesian Young Reformers take a picture after a press conference on Monday ahead of the 2016 National

18 July 2016 “OPEN and systematic monitoring” will be critical to the success of the Sin Tax Law, a World Bank working paper reported as

14 July 2016 Anti-smoking campaigners have urged the government of Aung San Suu Kyi to crack down on British American Tobacco in Burma, where it

13 July 2016 If current trends hold, Indonesia is on track to become the world’s largest market for tobacco. As other countries move to regulate

11 July 2016 Since the return of Big Tobacco to Myanmar en masse in 2013, smoking rates have increased markedly. Tobacco control experts warn that

3 July 2016 MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines ranks 15th out of the 23 countries in the Western Pacific with youth smokers. In the report

27 June 2016 Activists have raised suspicion of what they called “foul play” in the deliberation of the controversial tobacco bill in the House of

26 June 2016 Health advocates yesterday expressed gratitude to President Aquino who, despite being a smoker, approved two “vital” tobacco control laws during his term.

1 June 2016 SINGAPORE – From Wednesday (June 1), reservoirs and more than 400 parks, including those in private and public housing estates, have been

16 June 2016 Why you need to know Battleground Jakarta: Big Tobacco calls Indonesia its ‘crown jewel’; in a country of 250 million people, 70%

18 June 2016 A much lauded 2015 presidential decree on a national development strategy that aims to reduce the prevalence of smoking, especially among teenagers,

19 June 2016 MANILA – The cancer support group New Vois Association of the Philippines (NVAP) has expressed full support for incoming Health Secretary Paulyn

15 June 2016 Jakarta (ANTARA News) – The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Youth Movement (GM-FCTA) has called on President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) to protect

14 June 2016 Jakarta (ANTARA News) – Indonesian Minister of Empowerment of Women and Child Protection, Yohana Yambise, has expressed concern about the increasing number

14 June 2016 Precious bundles: Workers store shredded tobacco in a warehouse in Temanggung, Central Java. The quality of tobacco relies on the weather. Temanggung’s

14 June 2016 The government is set to limit smoking in public places for the sake of the health of the nation’s younger generation. Speaking

9 June 2016 Representing various Malaysian groups and associations, the National Cancer Society of Malaysia is responding to the statement ‘Plain cigarette packaging an infringement

7 June 2016 PUTRAJAYA: Anti-smoking campaigns do not seem to be working, with five million Malaysians still on the puff and the number of smokeless

6 June 2016 A huge cigarette pack replica showing the picture of a baby in critical condition was installed on Jl. Jend. Sudirman in Central

25 May 2016 KUALA LUMPUR: A DAP lawmaker has criticised the Health Ministry for backtracking on its plans to implement plain packaging for tobacco products.

28 May 2016 The Health Ministry is pushing for plain packaging on all cigarettes sold in Indonesia to reduce the alarmingly high smoking rate, especially

1 June 2016 JAKARTA, Indonesia—With few commitments to curb cigarette consumption, Indonesia is poised to have the largest population of smokers in the world in

28 May 2016 To mark this year’s World No Tobacco Day (May 31), the South-East Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) released a report recognising both

27 May 2016 The government in July will begin to issue fines to tobacco companies, distributors and retailers that don’t display a graphic warning on

27 May 2016 Images depicting the dreadful health effects of smoking will soon adorn all cigarette packs in Cambodia, which will be joined by Laos

KUALA LUMPUR, May 24 — Putrajaya must enact a standalone law on tobacco control with standardised packaging rules before the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement

17 May 2016 Public health policy think tank and Bloomberg Awardee for Global Tobacco Control HealthJustice Philippines welcomes presumptive president Rodrigo Duterte’s pronouncement that he

Big cigarette companies accused of feigning ignorance while young children work in plantations in hazardous conditions. Some of the world’s best known tobacco companies have

17 May 2016 In reference to the report Malaysia and Singapore coffee shop owners hit back at Malaysia Council for Tobacco Control (MCTC)  on May

5 May 2016 SEVERAL groups advanced health issues for the May 9 elections. One is HealthJustice Philippines Inc., a public health policy think tank and