Posts on ‘March 5th, 2008’

The Sydney Morning Herald - March 5, 2008
Anti-smoking group Quit Victoria has called for the introduction of plain cigarette packaging to reduce the ability of tobacco companies to promote their product.
Quit executive director Fiona Sharkie said graphic health warnings on cigarette packets, introduced two years ago, had shown that smokers were influenced by what they […]

Opportunity squandered

Updated on Mar 05, 2008 - SCMP
John Tsang Chun-wah failed to use his budget to increase tobacco duty to protect community health and help pay for the burden of care created by disease caused by tobacco. He continued the recent tradition, of financial secretaries, of adopting a firm tobacco industry-friendly position, which facilitates the […]

Increase in Hong Kong’s tobacco excise duty received in 2007 $ 132,961,161 over 2006
In UK in 7 months after their complete ban with tobacco tax at $62 a packet and free quit lines many people have given up
In Hong Kong with Smoking exemptions and tax of $ 16 a packet the smoking rates have increased […]

A growing alliance of health, medical, child welfare, educational, church, social equity, community and research organisations want to see children protected from tobacco.
We’d like to see the selling of tobacco products made more responsible
and brought into line with other dangerous and addictive products.
ASH Action: Protecting Children From Tobacco