Daily Clove Cigarettes News Update
Fresh from taking part in Terra Incognita’s Ecotour of the remote jungles of Borneo, I arrived at the Kota Kinabalu airport. With wild elephants and orangutans sparkled in my jovial mind I was jolted back to nightmarish harsh reality in the airport gift shop by the cigarette warning labels that told the tales of smoking [...]
The chain-smoking Indonesian toddler who gained instant worldwide fame via a viral video of him puffing away has gone into rehab - and given up cigarettes.
But now, reports CBS News Correspondent Betty Nguyen, Aldi Suganda, 2, is heading home, and there’s concern he may give in to temptation and resume smoking once he gets there. [...]
Indonesia is now struggling to make its young generation avert smoking habit as smoking age is getting younger from year to year.
The government-sanctioned commission tasked to protect children’s rights (KPAI) through its statement released recently said that according to the most recent data issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2008, Indonesia was ranked [...]
Officers from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority have foiled yet another cigarette smuggling attempt - on board a ferry boat arriving from Indonesia.
2,000 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes were found stashed underneath the floorboard of the “MV Ocean Raider” during routine checks last Thursday at about 9am.
The total value of the contraband cigarettes was about S6,500, [...]
The Terengganu Health Department is organising a campaign dubbed “Nafas Baru Bermula Ramadan” (New Breath Starts in Ramadan) in a bid to help hardcore smokers in the state to quit smoking.
Terengganu Health, Unity and Consumer Affairs Committee chairman Dr Abdul Rahman Mokhtar said the month of Ramadan was the perfect time for smokers to launch [...]
The capital’s public order officers would be more helpful stamping out smoking in public places rather than being deployed to round up the city’s less fortunate, a city councilor said on Tuesday.
Councilor Azas Tigor Nainggolan, who also chairs the Jakarta Residents Forum (Fakta), slammed Governor Fauzi Bowo’s annual sweeping operations, which are currently under way [...]
“When inhaled it will let out smoke with desired flavor, it’s not dangerous and the LED light will lit up in red as if burning. It is just cool!”
Thus went the promotion for “Rokok Elektrik Surabaya” (Surabaya Electronic Cigarettes). The pamphlet in which these words are printed goes on to say that the cigarettes are [...]
Yogyakarta. Forget talk on how to deal with radical groups. A smoking ban was the main issue when delegates started arriving for the 46th national congress of the country’s second-largest Muslim organization, Muhammadiyah, on Friday night.
The facts that millions nationwide are addicted to smoking, including Muhammadiyah members, and that Indonesia has the world’s fifth-highest rate [...]
Two American tobacco companies are paying nearly million to settle charges that they bribed foreign officials to get lucrative overseas tobacco sales contracts.
The companies, Universal Corp. of Richmond, Va., and Alliance One International of Morrisville, N.C., faced civil and criminal charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department, the government said Friday.
Universal [...]
Indonesia has finally agreed to ratify a tough world antismoking treaty, but only after photos and video reports of a two-year old who is so addicted that he smokes two packs a day appeared on the Internet.
Now pictures of similar smoking babies in other countries are also appearing on the Internet, and activists in these [...]
For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.
— Jay Leno
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