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Tobacco farmers in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) are reluctant to convert equipment from kerosene to coal power - despite the end of government kerosene subsidies - due to the cost to modifying drying ovens, says a local official.
False rumors that said that subsidized kerosene is still available also contributed to the of the energy conversion [...]
The efforts of anti-smoking campaigners have so far experienced little success despite being armed with the administration-sanctioned smoking ban bylaw five years ago. All of their activities seem to be defeated by excessive cigarette advertisements that bombard our eyes and ears. Many smokers continue their habit even in “smoke-free” areas without shame or fear of [...]
I absolutely agree! But the question now is: Will the ban work?
I mean, as we all know, the law in Indonesia is very weak and the people are mostly not law-abiding citizens!
So I just hope that the law can work effectively.
Fauzi Bandung
Just increase tobacco tax so cigarettes will be expensive and less people can afford [...]
Tobacco doesn’t discriminate by gender or age. People who smoke cigarettes — men or women, young or old — will suffer the negative impacts.
This view was shared during the “No Tobacco Show”, a one-day event organized by the National Commission on Tobacco Control on Saturday in Kuningan, South Jakarta. The event drew 1,500 people from [...]
The Global Youth Tobacco Survey conducted by the World Health Organization from 2006 to 2009 found that 88.4 percent of Indonesian girls were exposed to cigarette ads on billboards and more than 87 percent of them were exposed to secondhand smoke in public places.
Is it any wonder that tobacco firms are among the biggest advertisers [...]
“Many successful people do not smoke, because they know the danger of smoking,” said Yozar, Head of Public Relations Division for Indonesian Women Without Tobacco (WITT) at the sidelines of the anti-smoking campaign to commemorate World No Tobacco Day in front of 1,000 cyclists in Jakarta, Sunday (5/30).
Yozar was also concerned to see the current [...]
Astri is just one of tens of millions of female smokers in Indonesia. As smoking has declined in many Western countries, it has risen in Indonesia. Around 63 percent of all men light up and one-third of the overall population smokes, an increase of 26 percent since 1995. Smoking-related illnesses kill at least 200,000 annually [...]
SMOKERS IN Cyprus consume more cigarettes per day than other Europeans, while almost one third of the local population smokes.
The alarming statistics were published by the European Commission ahead of Monday’s World No Tobacco Day.
According to the Eurobarometer, Cypriots smoke an average of 21.7 cigarettes per day, followed by Greeks with 21.4 per day. The [...]
The W.H.O. says the tobacco industry has increasingly directed its marketing campaigns at women and girls. Women currently represent about twenty percent of smokers. But tobacco use among girls is increasing.
Data collected from one hundred fifty-one countries show that about seven percent of young girls now smoke. That compares with twelve percent of boys. In [...]
A YouTube video of a smoking toddler and the increasing prevalence of women addicted to tobacco show how the country is still struggling to quit lighting up on World No Tobacco Day, which falls today.
Students from medical schools across the country staged a major rally in Jakarta on Sunday calling on the government to take [...]
For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.
— Jay Leno
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