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Background
Each year, 540 million Chinese are exposed to secondhand smoke (SHS), resulting in more than 100,000 deaths. Smoke-free policies have been demonstrated to decrease overall cigarette consumption, encourage smokers to quit, and protect the health of nonsmokers. However, restrictions on smoking in China remain limited and ineffective. […]
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‘‘Efforts to Reprioritise the Agenda’’ in China: British American Tobacco’s Efforts to Influence Public Policy on Secondhand Smoke in China
Should Smoking Rooms Be Allowed?
SCMP - Dec 29, 2008
Everyone knows smoking is bad for our health, but smokers talk about their rights and argue they should be free to smoke. However, the health of non-smokers should not be put at risk for smokers’ convenience.
One of the reasons for the ban is to reduce people’s exposure to second-hand smoke and […]
Should The Full Smoking Ban Be Delayed?
SCMP - Dec 29, 2008
As a non-smoker, I am getting fed up with Anthony Hedley, Judith Mackay, Annelise Connell and the Clear The Air lobby. I have worked in the bar and restaurant business for 25 years, I am not an owner and my lungs and chest are clear.
I am not saying that this is […]
Start Full Smoking Ban
SCMP - Dec 28, 2008
I am against any delays to the full smoking ban, because the partial ban has not been effective.
I do not believe bar owners will suffer from the ban. Where food is served, the smoke-free environment will attract more diners and even smokers will be willing to refrain from lighting up. Therefore, […]
Should The Full Ban On Smoking Be Delayed?
SCMP - Updated on Dec 27, 2008
I refer to the letter by Deepak Nagrani (Talkback, December 22).
He claims that people are smoking more because of all the restrictions imposed by the government. Judging by official statistics and from my own observations, I would have to disagree.
In fact, I know many people who are smoking less […]
Should Smoking Rooms Be Allowed?
SCMP - Updated on Dec 27, 2008
I do not support the idea of setting up smoking rooms.
For those who think we should be slightly lenient to smokers in Hong Kong, please take a look at our “new” eating environment.
It is now so common to see people eat and hold cigarettes outside cha chaan tengs [tea […]
Up In Smoke
HK-magazine.com - December 26th, 2008
In six months, the government will lay down the final piece in its smoking-ban puzzle. The staggered anti-smoking legislation—first all indoor workplaces and eateries in January 2007, all bars and nightclubs in July 2009—has caused nothing but confusion and chaos since its passing in 2006. And now comes another problem: do […]
Should The Full Smoking Ban Be Delayed?
SCMP - Updated on Dec 23, 2008
Peter Crush (Talkback, December 17) continues to make unsubstantiated statements on smoking which need correction.
He says: “Licensed bars and entertainment places are private premises to which customers are invited at a manager’s discretion and are not public places with right of access.”
Bars are only licensed if they possess a […]
Documents Offer Look At Big Tobacco’s Asia Tactics
Associated Press By MICHAEL CASEY – Dec 23, 2008
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Two of the world’s largest tobacco companies, seeking to expand sales into Asia, worked to undermine anti-smoking policies in Thailand and China by infiltrating one research institute and funding another, researchers said Tuesday.
The allegations — highlighted in two separate studies — come as […]
Smoking Rooms Not Right For HK, Expert Says
Dan Kadison, SCMP - Updated on Dec 22, 2008
A number of Asian and European countries have placed restrictions on smoking but still permit smoking rooms to operate. But University of Hong Kong public health expert Anthony Hedley said this did not mean they would work in Hong Kong.
Deanna Cheung, British American Tobacco’s head of corporate […]
