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UK’s tobacco smoking strategy targets kids

fctc.org
16th Feb, 2010

The UK’s new tobacco strategy aims to make smoking history by ensuring fewer children take [...]

National games to return tobacco sponsorship money

Agence France-Presse in Beijing, SCMP
Organisers of China’s national games have pledged to return 20 million yuan (HK$22.75) in sponsorship fees [...]

Cigarette companies kicked out of tobacco meeting

Frank Jordans, Associated Press Writer
GENEVA –A U.N.-backed meeting on tobacco smuggling has barred cigarette companies from attending for fear they [...]

The Emerging Human Right to Tobacco Control

Dresler Carolyn and Marks Stephen, Human Rights Quarterly - Volume 28, Number 3, August 2006
The economic and public health impacts [...]

From 2011, Smoking Will Be Banned Completely in the Medical and Healthcare System

By James Middleton, Clear The Air - 23 May 09
The Chinese Ministry of Health yesterday released its much awaited “Decision” [...]

FCTC Defines Tobacco Packaging and Display as a Means of Advertising and Promotion

http://www.politics.co.uk/news/health/mp-attacks-light-cigarettes-$1287834.htm
Are plain packs the future?

Tuesday, 14, Apr 2009 12:00
By politics.co.uk staff
The government needs to force tobacco companies to wrap their [...]

Strong Evidence Supporting Plain Packaging For All Tobacco Products On The Eve Of Lords Vote

ASH UK - May 1, 2009
A new study [1] presented today in Dublin [2] has found a significant link between [...]

Priest Urges Smokers To Sue Cigarette Firms

By Allison Lopez, Philippine Daily Inquirer - 31 Mar 2009
MANILA, Philippines – Saying his brother Vincent has finally given a [...]

Tobacco Firms ‘Obstructing Global Treaty’

Business Mirror - Thursday, 12 March 2009
THE tobacco industry in Southeast Asia is “systematically obstructing” the implementation of a global [...]

We Need An Even Higher Tobacco Tax Hike

Mar 05, 2009 - SCMP
I refer to the letter by Chris Robinson (”Punitive tactics just put smokers on the defensive”, [...]