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Every six minutes, a Filipino dies of a smoking-related illness and the Department of Health believes passing the bill which seeks to use graphic-based health warnings on cigarette packs could help solve the problem.
In a statement on Saturday, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III appealed for the passage of House Bill No. 3364 or the Graphic [...]
With India choosing to introduce a ban on smoking at public places from October 2, a drop in revenue has been worrying Indian restaurateurs as well. But experts quote examples from across the globe to underline that smoking regulations are not only good for public health, but also make good business sense.
Take, for instance, the [...]
BACKGROUND: This report ends up with a large increase of the number of estimated deaths from passive smoking in Europe. Its conclusions have been decisive to passing laws banning smoking in public places.
RESULTS: However, analysis of this report for France reveals considerable anomalies, such as changing the usual definition of passive smoking. . [...]
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Since May, the UK Department of Health has been conducting a consultation on the future of tobacco control which includes the question, “Do you believe that plain packaging of tobacco products has merit as an initiative [...]
FORCES, a smokers’ rights organisation, uses similar strategies, as their tactics include “constantly linking anti-tobacco activists either to fascism/Nazism/communism or to some sort of criminal conspiracy against smokers and those people sympathetic towards FORCES’ causes”.75 (Unlike earlier “smokers’ rights” groups where information in tobacco industry documents demonstrates often undisclosed funding and management by the tobacco [...]
FOREST (Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco) once offered my 1988 book, Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis, for sale as “vital” for understanding “the statist and paternalist world view of the Nazis” and “the health fascism of contemporary anti-smoking and ‘health’ lobbies”.3 Schneider and Glantz rightly conclude that the industry’s interest [...]
The Industry and Trade Regional Office for Banyuwangi will provide funding assistance to 11 out of 20 small cigarette manufacturers amounting to Rp250 million.
The assistance is to help them improve quality in order to be able to compete in the market.
Indonesian art collector Oei Hong Djien is planning his third museum. There isn’t room in his existing two galleries and house for more than a fraction of the 1,500 works he acquired over the past three decades.
Oei, 69, was one of the first to systematically buy contemporary Indonesian art, long before prices for the nation’s [...]
“I don’t want to quit smoking,” said Romaneh, 42, who lights one Gauloise Light with another, inhaling deeply in between sips from a glass of thick Arabic coffee. “Smoking is a joy.”
Like Romaneh in this West Bank Palestinian city, millions of Muslim smokers get on a nicotine roller coaster during Ramadan, which ends this year [...]
The consumption of tobacco and tobacco related products claims 27,000 lives in Sri Lanka while 5.4 million persons die of using tobacco related products in the World every year, Gallage Punyawardana of Swarna Hansa Foundation said yesterday.
He said the death toll is projected to rise to eight million by 2030 due to the rise in [...]
On CBS Radio the news of [Ed Murrow's] death, reportedly from lung cancer, was followed by a cigarette commercial.
— Alexander Kendrick
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