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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

The government is expecting a slower annual growth in exports of tobacco and its products from average 18 percent in the past three years to

The government is expecting a slower annual growth in exports of tobacco and its products from average 18 percent in the past three years to

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Health experts on Thursday warned that the government is in danger of missing an internationally mandated deadline to ban tobacco advertising. The deadline is mandated

JAKARTA, April 1 – Indonesia plans to raise the cigarette excise tax, a senior industry ministry official said on Thursday, to offset lower production and

SINGAPORE: Cases involving sale of cigarettes to those under 18 have remained high in the last five years. The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has clamped

Global Adult Tobacco Survey data  Philippines Factsheets   Country Report 2009 Thailand Factsheets   Country Report 2009

Tobacco Free Initiative Newsletter  Legislation to ban TAPS in Countries of Southeast Asia Enforcement and monitoring mechanism of TAPS regulations Reports on implementation of regulation

High tobacco  prices and the long dry spell are driving a record number of Ilocos Sur farmers to shift to tobacco growing this year, the

Despite all the evidence out there, people are still smoking. IN THE 1940s, smoking cigarettes was socially acceptable – even considered cool, if you believe

The city will extend the smoking ban in public places and buildings after finding that smoking rooms in buildings do not stop smoke infiltrating non-smoking

MANILA, Philippines—The Bangkok-based Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Coalition (SATCC) has expressed “shock” and “disappointment” over the Tanauan City government’s decision to name one of its

  The National Consultation on tobacco control was held in Cambodia, last March 3rd and 4th 2010. Objectives were to understand the process of the

Malang, E Java (ANTARA News) – A group of youths representing Muhammadiyah-owned university students demonstrated here Wednesday to demand the reviewing of Muhammadiyah`s edict against

The controversy over smoking in Indonesia is heating up coincidentally with the visit of US President Barack Obama. He couldn’t possibly have learnt that in

MANILA, Philippines—About 17.3 million Filipinos aged 15 years old and above are tobacco smokers with at least 13.8 million smoking daily, the Philippine Global Adult

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority’s (MMDA) efforts to make Metro Manila 100 percent smoke-free by 2012 received a major boost with a P9.5-million grant from