Regional updates archive

China bucks world trends with the number of new smokers outnumbering those who quit, amid calls for more resources to help those wanting to break

The rate of smoking among young people in Australia has dropped to a record low, and there is hope it could be the early signs

Jakarta. An Indonesian consumer group, known as YLKI, slammed the Finance Ministry for giving appreciation to tobacco companies as it could be translated as an

Thousands more jobs may be lost in the Indonesian tobacco industry, with companies preferring cheaper machine methods to hiring laborers, an expert has said.  

Yesterday, ThaiHealth hosted the first committee meeting of the year on the major issues, setting up a selection committee to choose new ThaiHealth specialist board

The Ministries of Health and Information are working together to put some teeth into last year’s law restricting the advertisement of tobacco products to sale

BANGKOK (AFP) – Tobacco giant Philip Morris is facing an eye-watering 80 billion baht (S$3.15 billion) fine if found guilty of dodging tax on cigarette imports

Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance through its Decision No. 70/QD-BTC signed on 08 January 2016 has stipulated increases for minimum prices of domestic cigarette products. The

Traders in Vietnam are preparing to intercept increasingly sophisticated methods of smuggling cigarettes from Cambodia as imports peak ahead of Lunar New Year in February,

In hospital, it’s in-your-face clear: if you smoke, your odds of disease and death go up. Quitting smoking is the greatest gift you can give

They say health comes first, even if profits take a hit should measures come into force Tobacco retailers fear their profits are going to take

Smokers in Japan, who have long been welcome inside hotels, restaurants and other establishments, could soon find themselves out of favor with the general public

The federal government has won its case against tobacco giant Philip Morris Asia challenging Australia’s tobacco plain-packaging laws. It means the former Gillard government’s plain-packaging laws,

A debate over vaping touches deeper nerves KRYPTONITE, Paddle Pop and Breakfast Crunch are just a few of the flavoured “vape juices” sold to connoisseurs

The war on tobacco is far from won in the ASEAN region as the industry continues to interfere with public health policy.  To help address

From 2017, tobacco products in retail stores must be kept out of sight from the public at all times, according to new legal guidelines that

International seminar on “Health Promotion Towards a Healthier World in Post-2015 back to back with the 15th INHPF annual meeting was held at Evergreen International

By Jhoo Dong-chan The government’s recently broadcasingt anti-smoking video is drawing strong opposition from smokers because it equates buying tobacco products with buying lung cancer.

On 5 October 2015 the world’s largest trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), was signed. It includes 12 countries and applies to roughly 40 percent

On January 7, Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama signed into law a regulation banning outdoor advertising for cigarettes and other tobacco products. If you were

A group of young teenagers gathered around a stall, all smiling as their classmates hammered a banner in front of a photocopy kiosk. The colorful

Increment of tobacco excise tariff followed by the increase of cigarette price does not reduce the consumption and production of cigarette. Suppressing Demand of Cigarette

Jakarta. The Indonesian government has announced an average 11 percent excise hike for tobacco products next year, less than half of the 23 percent increase

by p divakaran PETALING JAYA: The new price of cigarettes announced by British American Tobacco (BAT) on Tuesday will cost you the same as 6kg of rice or

The findings from the National Adult Tobacco Survey of Cambodia 2014 (NATSC, 2014) conducted by the National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning, Cambodia with

Jakarta. Tobacco control activists have urged the Indonesian government to turn down a $2 billion investment plan from one of the world’s biggest tobacco companies, citing

If there’s anything to learn from the latest Oxford Economics (OE) study on illicit tobacco trade released recently in Hong Kong to a selective group

The controversial articles acknowledging kretek (clove cigarettes) as Indonesia’s cultural heritage have been removed from a culture draft bill by the House of Representatives (DPR).

India has decided to delay implementation of bigger health warnings on tobacco packaging by a year until April 2016, as pressure mounts on New Delhi

Jakarta. Vice President Jusuf Kalla has spoken out against a proposal by the House of Representatives to nominate Indonesia’s traditional clove cigarettes, or kretek, as

Effective control of tobacco consumption through higher tobacco taxes and prices was the key topic of an ongoing regional workshop in Yangon.   The implementation of

Union Minister of Health, U Than Aung, gave the inaugural speech at the “National Seminar on Pictorial Health Warning on Tobacco Packaging in Myanmar” on

THE SOUTHEAST ASIA Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) recommended that the Philippines remove the tobacco industry’s representation on the Inter-Agency Committee overseeing tobacco regulation, after the