Regional updates archive

Philippines Department of Health, Civil Service Commission commended for bolstering protection from big tobacco Bangkok—24 June 2010—The Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) welcomes the

Asian tobacco growers are meeting in Indonesia for a two-day summit on the challenges facing the industry. It comes after a recent recommendation by the

Congratulations to the Lao Tobacco Control Task Force for launching the Kobchai Newsletter(in Lao).  The first issue came out last 20 May 2010.  It features

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia began enforcing a ban on small cigarette packets, the health minister said Monday, after a short-lived postponement of the move

The percentage of teenage girls who smoke, which is higher than of teenage boys, is worrying, especially when there are girls who started smoking even

MANILA, Philippines – The Agro-Industrial Productivity Exponents (APEX) and the Philippine Association of Tobacco-Based Cooperatives (PATCO), the biggest organizations of tobacco farmers in the country,

Indonesia will ask the World Trade Organization on June 22 to rule on its complaint that a US ban on clove cigarettes aimed at preventing

June 10 (Bloomberg) — Philippine President-elect Benigno Aquino, who received flak for smoking on the campaign trail and has resisted calls to quit, said U.S.

Until regulations prohibiting tobacco companies from sponsoring sports events are put in place, Indonesia Open organizers are more than happy to do business with PT

Bandar Seri Begawan – Manipulative tactics that entice smokers to continue puffing with the aid of e-cigarettes and other new hi-tech tools were blasted yesterday

JAKARTA — A two-year-old Indonesian boy who smokes about 40 cigarettes a day will have specialist treatment next week to wean him off his habit,

Smoking shisha for hours is like smoking 400 cigarettes. -NST A SMOKING ban should not be applied only to cigarettes but also shisha, a flavoured

KUALA LUMPUR: The sale of the 14-stick cigarette packs has been banned with immediate effect. At its weekly meeting on Wednesay, the cabinet decided that

An order requiring tobacco companies to print graphic health warnings on cigarette packs is contrary to law, the Philippine Tobacco Institute (PTI) said on Thursday.

KUALA LUMPUR: Philip Morris (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (PMM), is mulling legal options following an an apparent decision by the government to reverse a previous Cabinet

AFTER working all night, a call centre worker in the Philippines lights up a cigarette as she walks home at 6am. A fashion model in

KUALA LUMPUR, May 27 — Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai has confirmed a delay in banning small cigarette packets over concerns of rising

Several high-school students who smoke have admitted they were encouraged to take up the habit after inhaling smoke from the cigarettes of their fellow classmates.

    JAKARTA – INDONESIA’S failure to ban tobacco advertising or enforce laws against smoking in bars and restaurants came under heavy fire on Monday

  JAKARTA, May 27 (Xinhua) — Amid the increasing rate of smoking people across the country, Indonesian students are highly expected to become the agents

Many in the medical field might raise an eyebrow upon hearing that cigarette smoke can be good for one’s health, given the numerous findings relating

PRESIDENTIAL RACE FRONT-RUNNER Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” C. Aquino III on Monday rejected calls to quit smoking, saying his habit would help him deal with the

THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT has thrown down the gauntlet to tobacco companies over a recently issued order requiring the incorporation of graphic health warnings on cigarette

Ardi Rizal, 2, throws a tantrum when his parents refuse him a cigarette. His father gave him his first when he was just 18 months

SMOKING among young women and girls in Southeast Asia continues to rise at an alarming rate, the direct result, regional anti-tobacco advocates say, of deliberate,

Video of Two-year-old Indonesian boy Ardi Rizal puffing casually on a cigarette is shocking the world.  The tolddler’s father, Mohammad, gave Ardi his first cigarette

SIR – According to your article on the efforts in Indonesia to tackle smoking, the anti-tobacco lobby tried to stop a Kelly Clarkson concert in

Smoke Free Melaka is an initiative of the Melaka State Government, the Ministry of Health and Melaka Health Department together with MyWATCH(Malaysian Women’s Action for Tobacco

A group of legal experts asked new leaders of the country Thursday to enact laws that would put picture-based health warnings of smoking-related diseases on

Participants in the journalist workshop on tobacco control in Hanoi, Vietnam The American Cancer Society conducted a journalist workshop on tobacco control for 28 journalists last

SEA countries join hands in conducting research on the Affordability of Tobacco and Modeling the Impact of Tobacco Tax Increases   SEATCA held its first regional

Nine tobacco producing regencies in Central Java are lobbying the government to influence proposed anti-smoking regulations, according to Temanggung Regent Hasyim Afandi. “It’s not a

DAVAO CITY, May 6 — If looks can kill, then the thousands of smoke-belching humans out there would have been dead by now. And if

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The Head of an antismoking advocacy team from the Faculty of Public Health, Diponegoro University, Semarang, Bagoes Widjanarko has asked the university to refuse scholarships

  Tobacco control advocates in Vietnam recently held a press conference to announce new survey results of the mass media campaign conducted in December 2009.  This was supported

Violations of the tobacco advertising and promotions ban are so wide-spread in Viet Nam that virtually all cigarette vendors in the country have ignored the

  Last 26 – 27 April 2010, twelve media officers from the region participated in a workshop on media monitoring and communications systems in Vientiane, Lao PDR. 

Dhaka – Bangladeshi chest doctor Kazi Saifuddin Bennoor has seen many misleading cigarette advertisements, but the one that suggested smoking could make childbirth easier plumbed

On 29 April 2010 the Australian government announced that, cigarettes in the country would be sold in plain packages by 2012. Save for graphic health

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SMOKELESS tobacco products and innocuous-looking but potentially addictive bite-sized nicotine candies will be banned in Singapore, under stricter anti-smoking laws that were introduced in Parliament

  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Pop star Kelly Clarkson’s upcoming concert in Indonesia will no longer be sponsored by a cigarette company, the promoter said

  International public health advocates are calling on U.S. singing star and American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson to withdraw tobacco industry sponsorship of her April

Kelly Clarkson explains to her fan the reason she has to cancel her trip to Indonesia. http://blog.kellyclarkson.com/2010/04/jakarta-mishap.html April 21, 2010 Jakarta Mishap So …my morning

BOGOR, Indonesia (AP) ― Just a few miles after passing a towering Marlboro Man ad, a second billboard off the highway promotes cigarettes with a

The American Cancer Society and the Vietnam Steering Committee on Smoking and Health (VINACOSH) held the Tobacco Control Policy Advocacy & Enforcement Training Workshop March

The Dewan Rakyat was told on Wednesday that the increase in the number of women smokers was worrying. Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai

    ANTI-SMOKING laws will be tightened, strengthening controls over novelty tobacco products that are said to be potentially addictive. In the latest entry of

Indonesian Trade Minister Mari Pangestu said Wednesday a US ban on clove cigarettes breaches World Trade Organisation rules. The ban took effect on September 22