Tobacco Control Blog
15 Jul, 10 | by bfreeman
Ruth Malone, Editor in Chief
Indonesia is one of the world’s most difficult places to do tobacco control, with a strong tobacco industry presence and a lot of political resistance from tobacco growers and their allies. Huge tobacco billboards are everywhere in the city of Jakarta. Yet, as we discovered on a recent visit, tobacco control advocates and researchers there are doing great work of global importance. . . .
Kent Convertible
Ruth Malone and Becky Freeman
Tobacco Control has now joined the BMJ Group Blogs – welcome to our inaugural post! Ok, ok, so maybe we’re a tad late to the party – but we’re here now and we promise to make it worth the wait.
Our master plan for this blog is that it will be topical, engaging, and most important of all include participation from TC readers, authors, reviewers, and editors. The tone and character will be collegial, but we warmly welcome the cheeky and irreverent. In keeping with the spirit of blogging, the style will be conversational and entries short for easy and enjoyable reading.
So to kick things off in that vein…
Seems there is no limit to the creativity of tobacco industry when it comes to inventing new ways to recruit addicts.
BAT Korea is this week launching the KENT Convertible – a cigarette which contains a liquid capsule in the filter that can be clicked to release a burst of flavour.
Commissioning editor for Low and Middle Income Countries Simon Chapman and I conducted a workshop in Jakarta aimed at encouraging more publications from low and middle income countries and enthusiasm ran high. . . .
