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Increasingly heavy burdens inflicted on Indonesians by tobacco-related diseases and deaths have made it imperative for the government to ratify the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) that severely restricts cigarette marketing and advertising.
It is saddening to report that Indonesia and North Korea are the only countries in Asia that have [...]
Anyone who has smoked cigarettes for a long period of time may find it difficult to kick the unhealthy habit — but Agung Laksono says he is finally free of his nicotine addiction.
The House of Representatives spokesman says he forced himself to stop smoking, a bad habit he picked up when he was 13.
“I had [...]
Smoking rates in Indonesia have increased significantly in recent years, placing it with India and China as the nations with the highest smoking rates. Katie Hamann met with researchers at a recent tobacco conference in the capital, Jakarta. They challenge the government’s position that the tobacco industry is vital to economic growth in Indonesia. . [...]
A decision by Finland to test the ignition ability of all cigarettes sold in the country could be extended across Europe as of 2011 in an attempt to prevent domestic fires and related deaths.
Last month, the Finnish government suggested adopting the international standard ASTM E2187 to test the ignition performance of cigarettes on bedding and [...]
A new editorial discusses the issues surrounding tobacco regulations and how the industry could be more effectively governed.
“The establishment of regulation is a political process and occurs slowly. However, with the gradual but prolonged and massive epidemic of tobacco-related diseases, regulation of the industry’s products - specifically the constituents of tobacco smoke - has to [...]
The government has since early this year shut down at least 1,500 cigarette factories in the country for various reasons.
“There are many reasons to shut down the cigarette factories, ranging from the absence of official permits, abuse of excise tapes to the illegal sales of cigarettes,” Director General of Customs and Excise Anwar Suprijadi said [...]
As much as good health and humanitarian impulse are met by this grand gesture, it also completes a neat historical and geographical circle. Tobacco use was the gift of the Americas to the world’s people. Centuries later, two American billionaires are putting up their money to rid the world of this exported vice that seemed [...]
Chief Executive Officer of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Barbados, Adrian Randall, said advocates and the relevant authorities need to continue to push this mode of thinking, because unless we apply the various articles of the World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, that number will increase. . . . We have no [...]
AUSTRALIA’S world MotoGP champion and Young Australian of the Year, Casey Stoner, is being named and shamed in an aggressive campaign by anti-smoking groups which have labelled him as a “high-speed drug pusher.”
They said images of the 22-year-old non-smoker and his bike covered in logos of Marlboro cigarettes while racing and in the media are [...]
The government may leave unchanged excise duty for cigarettes and tobacco next year to protect the cigarette industry’s employment rate amid sluggish growth in other labor-intensive sectors.
“We expect to count on more excise revenue from an increase in cigarette sales. We forecast the sales will be higher next year,” the Finance Ministry’s Director General of [...]
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